The White Visitation

[jbor at bigpond.com]

>> Some thoughts: There are different "Wings" in TWV, and usually four
>> wings to a Palladian house.
>
On 25/12/2005 Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Two wings, typically. A very few of the very grandest were planned with
> four, which seldom got built before the family ran out of money.

Thanks for the correction. However, it seems as if TWV, with a "'D' 
wing" housing "a few genuine patients" as its "cover" (139), has four 
wings. Just like Holkham Hall.

If the Palladian ground plan of 'TWV' were symmetrical, which is 
eminently possible, then it would most certainly form the inner section 
of a mandala. All one would need would be a circular path set in the 
lawn around the house to complete the effect.

It's not as if there aren't other examples of mandalas in the book. ... 
But perhaps we need spoiler warnings from this point?

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