ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 
The Pontine marshes have supplied Costa with many 
subjects, more especially the immediate neighbour¬ 
hood of Porto d’Anzio and the Circean shore. “ Cceli 
enarrant gloriam Dei ” is the title of a wide view over 
the sea and the marshes, under a fine sky and rolling 
cumulus cloud. “ A Sirocco Day on the Shore near 
Rome,” the property of Mr. Stopford Brooke, shows us 
the same coastwith a foreground of stunted brushwood, 
and a gleam of light breaking through the heavy 
clouds on the foam-crested waves and the tired wood¬ 
man bending under his load. One exquisite little 
picture on which the painter himself set great store 
is a “ Sunrise near Terracina,” with a stretch of grassy 
sward and ploughland in the foreground, and in the 
distance the summit of Monte Circeo rising above the 
pale blue line of sea—a little gem of rich and delicate 
colour. Another small painting which had an especial 
interest for Costa is that of a fishing-boat drawn upon 
the beach under the burning glow of an August 
sunset. This little study was long the property of 
Lord Leighton, and in that boat Costa and George 
Mason once lived during a whole summer. Towards 
the close of this period Costa painted the large picture 
of “ Women carrying Wood to the Boats on the Shore 
of Porto d’Anzio,” a work in which the studies of his 
Roman years may be said to be summed up. Here 
the statuesque forms and majestic bearing of these 
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