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Temples
Religious buildings dedicated to the service of a deity or deities, often housing a cult image; not used for such Christian or Islamic religious buildings.
Temples (garden structures)
Garden structures resembling religious buildings dedicated to the service of a deity or deities.
Tholoi
Circular buildings of classical date, with or without a peristyle.
Topiary
Trees or shrubs pruned and trained into various geometric, zoomorphic, or fantastic shapes.
Topography (image-making)
Art or practice of the accurate graphic delineation of the natural and man-made surface features of a specific urban area, tract of land, or other place, especially so as to show their relative positions and elevations.
Towers
Usually detached or isolated buildings or other structures high in proportion to their lateral dimensions. Their function was originally defensive, but in gardens they can function as belvederes providing a view into the landscape.
Treatises
Formal and systematic written expositions of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than essays.
Trellises
Small arbors, often only two-dimensional, generally used to support climbing plants or as sunshades.
Triclinia (rooms)
Dining rooms in Roman houses; usually furnished with a low table and surrounded on three sides by couches.
Triumphal Arches (garden structures)
Garden entrances in the form of the free-standing monumental gateways that originated in Rome in the second century BCE as temporary structures to celebrate the triumphal entrance of victorious generals. Beginning in the late first century BCE they were erected in stone as permanent commemorative structures.
Trivio
Three avenues radiating from a single point called in French a patte d'oie, or goose foot. See also patte d'oie.
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