the secret of the silt colour of the water in the photo comes from the pigeons, starlings and sparrows bathing the dust off their feathers in the water basin above the pool.
“Take, for example, the treatment of water. The Italian mastery over the " water-art " has been dealt with by a score of writers, who have failed to notice that a higher poetry may be found in that element than the beauty of form and sound, than the shifting curves of a fountain or the deep-toned music of a great cascade. There is the poetry of colour. Surely some one of these writers miist have noticed the blue of the Vatican fountain,^ the greenish tint of the basin at Caprarola, the mysterious reflections of the water-garden at Lante which strangely and beyond experience mirrors the sky. But,
1 Dello Scoglio. This has colour even on a sunless”
Excerpt From: Sitwell, George Reresby, Sir, 1860-1943. “An essay on the making of gardens; being a study of old Italian gardens, of the nature of beauty, and the principles involved in garden design.” London, J. Murray, 1909. iBooks.
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“day.
fresh it may be from the lovely colouring of Como and Maggiore, or from the blue-crystal strand of Garda, where the sunlight is ever dancing in a magic web over the pebbles, they have attributed these effects to any cause but the right one ; to happy chance, to the depth or purity of the water, the clearness of the atmosphere, the glowing radiance of the southern sun. At the ViUa Borghese at Frascati a httle basin some twelve feet across gives away the secret;”
Excerpt From: Sitwell, George Reresby, Sir, 1860-1943. “An essay on the making of gardens; being a study of old Italian gardens, of the nature of beauty, and the principles involved in garden design.” London, J. Murray, 1909. iBooks.
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