THE GARDEXS OE ITALY. 
-OLD ROMAN TOMB IN THF PLAIN BELOW TIVOLI. 
with which we arc too 
tamiliar. 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 
facade, 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 
oc a lity 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 
