Title Garden and grove : the Italian Renaissance garden in the English imagination, 1600-1750 / John Dixon Hunt

Edition 1st pbk. ed Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) : illustrations Series Franklin Jasper Walls lectures Franklin Jasper Walls lectures Contents Frontmatter -- List of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the 1996 Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Garden on the Grand Tour -- 2. Classical Ground And Classical Gardens -- 3. Villa and Vigna -- 4. Ovid in the garden -- 5. Garden and theatre -- 6. Cabinets of curiosity -- 7. Variety -- 8. Art and Nature -- 9. 'My Patterne for a Countrey Seat' -- 10. 'The Way Of Italian Gardens' -- 11. 'Palladian' Gardening -- Notes -- Index Summary Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems. With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models Notes Originally published: London : J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1986. With new preface "The Franklin Jasper Walls lectures"--Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-259) and index Notes Print version record Subject Gardens, English -- Italian influences. Gardens, Italian -- Influence Gardens, Renaissance -- England Gardens, Renaissance -- Italy -- Influence ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape. GARDENING -- Garden Design. GARDENING -- Landscape. Gardens, English -- Italian influences Gardens, Italian -- Influence Gardens, Renaissance Gardens, Renaissance -- Influence Jardins -- Italie. Jardins -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- Influence italienne. Jardins anglais -- influence italienne. Jardins de la Renaissance -- Italie. England Italy Form Electronic book ISBN 0585121052 9780585121055 0812292782 9780812292787

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