Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
University garden of lily ponds, glasshouses and arboretum that inspired a celebrated watercolourist.
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This guide to the Botanical Garden in Zagreb follows Slava Raškaj, a watercolourist born deaf in eighteen seventy-seven, who made this garden her favourite place to paint. It touches her schooling in Vienna, the painters who turned her away or took her in, and the Monet comparisons her water lilies still draw. Best heard standing at the edge of the lily ponds.
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