On a warm spring day in Tehran, against a backdrop of roses, fountains and the snow-capped Alborz mountains, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered for what organisers bill as the world's biggest book fair.
Against a backdrop of rose-petal music, it spans four minutes panning over perfectly parked cars, in a perfectly manicured parking lot, with people strolling toward the sparkling new stadium along tree-lined walkways.
Her mural at Rose Avenue and 4th Street in Venice — a close-up of a woman's open mouth painted freestyle with a purple-and-aqua backdrop, with roses for the woman's eyes added later — sparked a fluid mural aesthetic she's still building.
To avoid the clubbish atmosphere of the Rose Room, the backdrop for daily gatherings of the Round Table, they met in the small Oak Room restaurant next to the lobby.
Now, they provide the backdrop for vines and climbing roses These Venetian gates were bought by the fourth Duke around 500 years ago, and have recently been fully restored and rehung A number of rills run out from a pool in the centre of the garden.
But such details sit against an apologist backdrop that sees the city through rose-tinted glasses.
Set against the backdrop of the war of the roses, The White Queen is a collaboration between the BBC and Starz, internationally renowned home of the internationally preposterous costume epic.
Opener Jonny O'the Brine gallops to a tabla rhythm, Bonny Bunch of Roses drifts on a backdrop of flutes, fiddles and a crackling east European 78, while Lovely Molly uses a full choir.
The result was a romantic take on sportswear, with a shadow-play screen projection suggesting a Dolce Vita lifestyle: Capri or Positano in its golden era as the backdrop to reclining women, who were handed roses by a smitten man.
Rose-hued skies are the backdrop for tall ships with scarlet sails, and crowds enjoy spectacular fireworks and a water show.
The lane itself serves as a lushly riotous backdrop, with fragrant, shady sal mal trees and blooming roses, tumbledown walls and buses that roar down a nearby thoroughfare, including "the near-mythical 109, whose route nobody knew".
