THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 





197. OLD ROMAN TOMB IN THE PLAIN BELOW TIVOLI. 



198. OLIVE TREE AND DISTANT VIEW OF TIVOLI. 



with which we are too 

 familiar. Most of it is now 

 perished or wholly gone, 

 and it is difficult to form 

 an idea of the original 

 appearance of this colossal 

 toy. The great water 

 organ (Fig. 209) is a great 

 fantasy rather than a 

 serious piece of architec- 

 ture. It shows still signs 

 of colouring, a chocolate 

 brown being particularly 

 evident. Very probably 

 it was rather crude in 

 all its original freshness. 

 The figures have back- 

 grounds of coarse 

 mosaic. There is a fine 

 view from this high 

 balustraded level over the 

 pools below. To the left 

 is the great flat mass of 

 the villa, with its un- 

 finished but impressive 

 fafade, behind which the 

 campanile of the church 

 raises itself as though 

 placed there as an inten- 

 tional central feature. The 

 great cypresses of the main 

 axis form a supporting 

 base to the fa9ade, coun- 

 teracting by their verti- 

 cality the long, horizontal 

 lines of its architecture. 

 The central projecting 

 loggia of golden-columned 

 masonry is finely detailed, 

 and the staircase on either 

 side of it is well worked 

 out. The character of this 

 feature suggests that the 

 fa9ade as a whole would 

 have been completed in a 

 good style. Rubble 

 masonry, for which the 

 locality supplies a 

 quantity of bluish rock, 

 is used for the main 

 walling as well as the 

 brown material of the 

 true tufa formation. 

 Below this central feature 



