Karl Alexander von Winkler 1860–1911 Boboli Gardens in Florence. 1906

Other Estonian artists (e.g. Roman Nyman) also depicted the Boboli garden, but Winkler was one of the first. While painting in Florence, he was undoubtedly charmed by a certain exoticism of the park. The peculiarity of the park motif has also determined the spatial approach, where the central place is a long perspective moving into the depth of the painting, framed by trees and culminating in a yellow house. Such a strict perspective is not found in nature, but it is possible in a park where man has arranged nature according to his own hand. The aesthetic setting, from the tree branches falling from the arch to the shadows falling on the walkway, is carefully calculated, but Winkler makes it all look like a semi-random spectacle.