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On the second floor, the Sala dei Gigli (Hall of the Lilies) is brilliantly decorated in blues and golds with Florentine heraldry and vivid Ghirlandaio frescoes of Roman and early Christian history.
All this soft-focus packaging conveys the popular image of Claude Monet (1840-1926) as the painter of weekend pleasures, puttering around in his aqueous garden and filling his canvases with sunlit lilies reflected in the pink and blue water--a rococo Fragonard or Boucher marooned in the early 20 th century.
Like Cézanne's last views of Mont Sainte Victoire, or Monet's water lilies, they had the slightly incoherent grandeur often associated with an altersstil , an old-age style.
The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.
Wouldn't padding--even thin--be gilding the lilies?