Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902)
city in the midst ofthe valley is a perfect thing too — a comprehend able place— a composition in the painters sense. Rich brown roofs,from which rise the white walls of the Duomo and the Cam-panile, and the high stem tower of the town house, — towersand church all rising against exquisite coloring… … the absurd stucco caves within the arches of terrace walls.Another day he visited the Boboli Garden, where he hadplayed every day for a fortnight when he was a boy of five.He explored it thoroughh% and got from it an idea or two,but found it a dreary jjlace. The Pitti Gallery, however, wasclose at…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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