Tiber
— a river the colour of old gold under the bridges.
Not only on a wall.
“Italy's third-longest river, rising on Monte Fumaiolo in the Apennines and running about 406 kilometres south through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Through Rome it bends past the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber Island, under bridges old enough to have carried legions home. The water reads ochre most of the year, silver at first light, almost black on a wet winter evening between the high stone walls. from the studio
Tiber, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Tiber rises at about 1,268 metres on Monte Fumaiolo, in the northern Apennines of Emilia-Romagna, and runs roughly 406 kilometres south through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea near Ostia. It is the third-longest river in Italy, after the Po and the Adige, and the longest of the peninsula's western-draining rivers. The river crosses three regions and twelve provinces, then bisects the entire historic centre of Rome, separating the old city from Trastevere and the Vatican. Its major tributaries include the Nera, which contributes more than half its discharge near Orte, and the Aniene above the city.
The river's characteristic ochre-yellow comes from silt and clay carried down through the soft Apennine valleys; the Romans called it flavus Tiberis, the "yellow Tiber," in poetry from Virgil onward. Mean discharge at Rome is about 230 cubic metres per second, with historical floods lifting the river more than 17 metres above low water — the marble plaques on the Via dell'Arco dei Banchi record water heights from the great flood of 1495 onward. After the catastrophic flood of December 1870, Rome built the muraglioni, the high travertine embankment walls that still channel the river through the city.
Some of the river's bridges are among the oldest still in service in Europe. Ponte Milvio, north of the historic centre, was first built in 109 BCE and was the site of Constantine's victory over Maxentius in 312 CE. Ponte Sant'Angelo, opposite the Castel Sant'Angelo, was commissioned by the emperor Hadrian in 134 CE; its present marble angels were added by Bernini's workshop in the 1660s. Ponte Sisto, finished in 1479 under Pope Sixtus IV, is the only Renaissance bridge of central Rome. The Isola Tiberina at midstream has held a temple, then a hospital, since 293 BCE.