ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 
trust and faith grow every day stronger in the Eternal 
and the Unseen.” 
To the last Costa worked at his art, feeling that he 
had still something to say, and painted new pictures or 
planned fresh works on a grander scale. In the New 
Gallery of 1902 he exhibited two studies of his favourite 
regions. One was a “ Daybreak at Bocca d’Arno,” with 
the cool morning light stealing over the blue ridges of 
Carrara, “ le nostre montagne,” as the aged master 
fondly called them. The other was a leaf from an 
old sketch-book, a study of the full moon rising over 
the Tyrrhenian sea while the last crimson streaks of 
the sunset are seen dying in the western horizon. It 
was a presage of the coming end. In the summer he 
went as usual to Bocca d’Arno and began to paint 
another picture. But it was never finished. The 
sands of life were fast running out, and on the last 
day of January 1903, within sight of his own moun¬ 
tains, the “ strong heroic soul ” passed away. No 
man ever deserved better of his country than this 
Roman painter ; none has left a purer fame or a more 
honoured memory behind him. 
