Studio: international art (85.1923)

IMPRESSIONS OF GRANADA

“A GRANADA GIPSY." LEAD PENCIL
AND WATER - COLOUR DRAWING
BY WYNNE APPERLEY, R.I.

In the long, stifling days of midsummer
heat, the open courts and dim-lit halls of
the Arab palace form a delicious retreat in
which the artist may escape from the
burning rays of the Spanish sun, albeit
the lazy plash of Lindaraja's fountain will
probably exercise a corrosive influence on
his productive energy, whilst the weather-
worn monsters in the Court of Lions idly
spouting water into their marble trough,
will surely convince him sooner or later
of the truth of the Italian saying, “ Dolce
far niente ” ! The Generalife, with its
terraced gardens and age-old cypresses,
has been more painted than any other
corner in Granada. A delicious retreat it
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certainly is, and an ideal spot in which to
doze over the “ Thousand and one nights,”
but—and here, although comparisons be
odious, I am going to make one—when one
has seen such gardens as that of the Villa
d'Este and those of Frascati, the Generalife
can but strike one as cramped and pretty-
pretty, redeemed though it be by the
magnificent panorama which its highest
Mirador commands. 000

Allowing the Alhambra all the historic
and architectural importance which is
due to that unique monument, and not
forgetting many other artistic treasures
of the first order which the city possesses,
I do not hesitate to affirm that the greatest