And close to them, not a hundred steps from where they sat in the shade of the limes, there rose the wooded slopes and mighty tree-tops of an ancestral park, from the interior of which they caught the gleam of pillars, bridges, and white, vine-clad balustrades.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The market was crowded with a throng of holiday-makers, a garden of bright colours and from the balconies above richly dressed ladies looked down, themselves a pageant of beauty, with their wonderful golden hair and gleaming jewels, while green and crimson parrots, fastened by golden chains to the marble balustrades, screamed and flapped their wings, and delighted Carpaccio's keen eyes with their vivid beauty.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman
There were banqueting halls with marble balustrades just like their own Venetian palaces.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman