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André Le Nôtre in perspective / edited by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat.

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André Le Nôtre in perspective / edited by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat.
Publication
Versailles : Établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles ; Paris : Hazan ; New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Laird, Mark.
  • Jong, E. de (Erik).
  • Hedin, Thomas F., 1944-
  • Bouchenot-Déchin, Patricia.
  • Farhat, Georges.
  • Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.
  • Établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles.
Description
412 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans (chiefly col.); 32 cm.
Summary
"André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France’s greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener’s life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre’s output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world’s leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields"--
Alternative Title
Le Nôtre
Subject
  • Le Nôtre, André, 1613-1700 > Exhibitions
  • Le Nôtre, André, 1613-1700 > Influence > Exhibitions
  • Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) > Exhibitions
  • Gardens, French > History > 17th century > Exhibitions
  • Gardens > France > History > 17th century > Exhibitions
  • Landscape design > France > History > 17th century > Exhibitions
  • Landscape architects > France > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • "[P]ublished on the occasion of the exhibition André Le Nôtre in Perspective, 1613-2013 at the Château de Versailles from October 22, 2013 to February 23, 2014"--T.p. verso.
  • "This reference work marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre"--Book jacket.
  • Published simultaneosly in French.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-407) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From bassin to fountain : Le Nôtre before Le Brun in the gardebs of Versailles / Thomas Hedin -- A matter of taste : the operational function of the garden in the time of Le Nôtre / Erik A. de Jong -- Revisiting English gardens, 1630-1730 : the French connection in Britannia / Mark Laird.
ISBN
  • 9780300199390
  • 0300199392
OCLC
  • 842877133
  • SCSB-12614516
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library