Research Catalog

Title

History of garden design : the western tradition from the Renaissance to the present day / edited by Monique Mosser, and Georges Teyssot.

Publication

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mosser, Monique.
• Teyssot, Georges, 1946-

Description

543 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm

Summary

This chronological series of essays includes discussion of the humanist garden in Renaissance Italy, the concepts of the sublime and the picturesque, mazes, grottoes, city parks, American land art as well as studies of individual gardens.

Uniform Title

Architettura dei giardini d'Occidente. English.

Subject

• Geschichte 1350-1987
• Gardens > Europe > History
• Gardens > Europe > Design > History
• Gardens, European > History
• Landscape architecture > Europe > History
• Gardens
• Gardens > Design
• Gardens, European
• Landscape architecture
• Gartenkunst
• Tuinarchitectuur
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Previsously published in the USA under the title The Architecture of Western Gardens"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: The Architecture of the Garden and Architecture in the Garden / Monique Mosser, Georges Teyssot 11 -- Part 1 Humanist Garden: From Allegory to Mannerism 25 -- Humanist Garden / Terry Comito 37 -- Nature and Artifice in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Garden / Lionello Puppi 47 -- Curiosities and Marvels of the Sixteenth-Century Garden / Luigi Zangheri 59 -- Garden of Wisdom of Bernard Palissy / Anne-Marie Lecoq 69 -- Botanical Gardens of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi 81 -- Labyriths in the Gardens of the Renaissance / Paolo Carpeggiani 84 -- Giardino Segreto of the Renaissance / Gianni Venturi 88 -- Villa Lante at Bagnaia / Bruno Adorni 91 -- Gardens of Buontalenti / Luigi Zangheri 96 -- Illustrations of Gardens in the Sixteenth Century: 'The Most Excellent Buildings in France' / Francoise Boudon 100 -- Johan Vredeman de Vries and the / Hortorum Formae, Ulbe Martin Mebrtens 103 -- A Model Humanist Garden: Villa Brenzone at Punta San Vigilio / Margherita Azzi Visentini 106 -- Part 2 Straight Line and the Arabesque: From the Baroque Garden to the Classical Park 109 -- Garden History and Cartography / Francoise Bondon 125 -- Technology in the Park: Engineers and Gardeners in Seventeenth-Century France / Helene Verin 135 -- Italian Baroque and Rococo Garden / Anna Maria Matteucci 147 -- Hortus Palatinus of Salomon de Caus / Reinbard Zimmermann 157 -- Garden Designs of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder / Dorothee Nebring 160 -- Garden Design in The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century / Carla S. Oldenburger-Ebbers 163 -- Villas, Gardens and Fountains of Rome: The Etchings of Giovanni Battista Falda / Maurizio Gargano 166 -- Architectural Adornment of Cardinal Richelieu's Garden at Rueil / Kenneth Woodbridge 169 -- Menagerie at Versailles / Gerard Mabille 172 -- Gardens and Plant Collections in France and Italy in the Seventeenth Century / Antoine Schnapper 175 -- Formal Garden at Het Loo / Jan ran Asbeck 178 -- Garden of Villa Garzoni at Collodi / Alessandra Ponte 181 -- 'Hell and Paradise Are Here': The Garden of Villa Barbarigo at Valsanzibio, Padua / Lionello Puppi 185 -- Garden of the Prince-Bishop at Veitshochheim / Helmut Reimbardt 188 -- Grosser Garten at Herrenhausen near Hanover / Dieter Hemebo 192 -- Schonbrunn: A Theatre of Fragments / Paolo Morachiello 195 -- La Granja: Castilian Baroque and European Classicism / Carmen Anon Feliu 198 -- Part 3 Picturesque, Arcadian and Sublime: The Age of Enlightenment 203 -- 'Ut Pictura Poesis': The Garden and the Picturesque in England (1710-1750) / John Dixon Hunt 231 -- Scenography and Perspective in Eighteenth-Century French Gardens / Marianne Roland Michel 243 -- Received Ideas on Pastoral / Simon Pugh 253 -- Paradox in the Garden: A Brief Account of Fabriques / Monique Mosser 263 -- Nature and the Idea of Gardening in Eighteenth-Century Spain / Carmen Anon Feliu 281 -- German Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: Classicism, Rococo and Neo-Classicism / Helmut Reinhardt 293 -- Urban Walks in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Daniel Rabreau 305 -- Park of Wilhelmshohe: From the Baroque Delineatio Montis to the Heroic Landscape / Hans-Christoph Dittschheid 317 -- Italian Origins of Rousham / Elisabetta Cereghini 320 -- Sublime as Paradigm: Hafod and Hawkstone / Malcolm Andren's 323 -- Gardens of the Palazzo Reale at Caserta / Cesare De Seta 327 -- Tiled Gardens of Southern Portugal / Anne de Stoop 330 -- Imperial Gardens of Russia / Peter Hayden 333 -- 'Ideas' of Rene de Girardin at Ermenonville / Autoinette Le Norman Romain 337 -- Gardens of Hubert Robert / Jean de Cayeux 340 -- Character of the Tree: From Alexander Cozens to Richard Payne Knight / Alessandra Ponte 344 -- Masonic Gardens in Sicily / Eliana Mauro, Ettore Sessa 348 -- Part 4 Eclectic Garden, and the TownU and City Park 351 -- Eclectic Garden and the Imitation of Nature / Georges Teyssot 359 -- Public Parks in Great Britain and the United States: From a 'Spirit of the Place' to a 'Spirit of Civilization' / Alessandra Ponte 373 -- Haussmann's Paris: A Green Metropolis? / Thomas von Joest 387 -- Beaux-Arts Garden / Ignasi de Sola Morales 399 -- Green Revolution: Leberecht Migge and the Reform of the Garden in Modernist Germany / Marco De Michelis 409 -- Park at Klein-Glienicke, Berlin / Klaus von Krosigk 421 -- English Cottage Garden / Gillian Darley 424 -- Glasshouses and Winter Gardens / Renzo Dubbini 427 -- A.J. Downing (1815-1852): Beyond the Treatise on Landscape Gardening / Judith K. Major 430 -- Viktoriapark in Berlin / Vroni Heinrich 435 -- Park Guell, Barcelona (1900-1914) / Ignasi de Sola Morales 438 -- Parc Leopold: The Home of Scientific Imagination / Annick Brauman 442 -- Henri and Achille Duchene and the Reinvention of Le Notre / Monique Mosser 446 -- Allotments and Schrebergarten in Germany / Birgit Wahmann 451 -- Jugendstil Garden in Germany and Austria / Birgit Wahmann 454 -- Gardens of the Cote d'Azur / Michel Racine 457 -- Art Deco Gardens in France / Catherine Royer 460 -- Heimatschutz Movement and the Monumentalization of the Landscape / Marco Pogacnik 463 -- Reform Park in the United States (1900-1930) / Galen Cranz 466 -- Part 5 Aspects of the Contemporary Garden: From the Leisure Park to Artistic Experimentation 469 -- Gardens and Photography / Tony Mott 471 -- Leisure Parks in Europe: Entertainment and Escapism / Isabelle Auricoste 483 -- Garden and the Visual Arts in the Contemporary Period: Arcadians, Postclassicists and Land Artists / Stephen Bann 495 -- Bos Park, Amsterdam, and Urban Development in Holland / Sergio Polano 507 -- Recreation Facilities in the United States (1930-1940) / Catherine Howett 510 -- Greenbelt, Maryland / Christian Zapatka 513 -- Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe at Sutton Place, Surrey / George Plumptre 516 -- Pictorial Technique of 'Ecological Painting': The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx / Fernando Aliata 519 -- Gardens of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Stephen Bann 522 -- Impossible Quest for the Past: Thoughts on the Restoration of Gardens / Monique Mosser 525 -- ICOMOS: Florence Charter 530.

ISBN

• 0500282064
• 9780500282069

LCCN

99067034

OCLC

• ocm45487308
• 45487308
• SCSB-1696659

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library