“...but at the far end is the brilliance of the garden seen through the peristyle which spreads out this light with a large gesture, distributes it and accentuates it, stretching widely from left to right, making a great space. Between the two is the Tablinum, contracting this vision like the lens of a camera. On the right and on the left two patches of shade - little ones. Out of the clatter of the swarming street which is for every man and full of picturesque incident, you have entered the house of a Roman.”