My friend Greg, a studio art major from Cal Poly help me compose this
picture. He explained a very handy rule about composition to me. Break the
picture into nine squares (3 by 3) and put the desired focal point at the
intersection the outer boxes. The tower is one of the original towers from
Florence's third set of walls (begun in 1296, the same year as the Duomo and
Palazzo Vecchio), the Arno is to my back.
I don't remember the water being so green....This is a large fountain/island
at the end of "Cyprus lane", one of the major axis of the Boboli Gardens.
This was a path less taken by my class...The hedges are used to define a
path....vegetation as architecture....
Last century or so, about 1/3 of the gardens were a labyrinth, with tall
hedges that acted as walls. The labyrinth was razed to build a meandering
path from the top to the bottom of the gardens. This covered/vegetated path
reminds me of perhaps what once was.
An Ancient Roman Statue of A Goddess, accompanied by some modern-day
Goddesses.
