Gentlemen & Players: Gardeners of the English LandscapeThe English landscape garden of the 18th century was the one stylistic lead that continental Europe was eager to follow. Was it a natural evolution or a chain of absolute revolutions? This work reappraises the age of the English Arcadia, tracing garden style's development through the designers and their gardens - men including Vanbrugh, Repton, London and Wise, as well as lesser known but important contemporaries. |
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Gentlemen and Players: The Men Who Recreated the English Landscape Timothy Mowl No preview available - 2010 |
Gentlemen and Players: The Men Who Recreated the English Landscape Timothy Mowl No preview available - 2010 |
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aesthetic Arcadia Architecture avenues axial Beale Beale's beautiful Bridgeman Brompton Park Capability Brown cascade Castle Howard century CHAPTER Chinese Chiswick classical Claude clumped cottage Duke Earl eclectic England English Garden farm ferme ornée flowers formal gardens fountains French garden buildings garden design Garden History Gardenesque geometrical Gilpin Gothick green Grotto grounds Grove hedges Herefordshire hill Humphry Repton Ibid Ichnographia illustrated improvements Inigo Jones John Evelyn Kent's lake Lancelot Brown Landscape Garden lawn layout Leasowes London and Wise Lord Burlington natural never orchard painting Palladian parterres paths pavilion Payne Knight Picturesque planting pleasure Pope Pope's Quoted Red Book river rocks Rococo Rococo garden royal Samuel Hartlib seat serpentine Shenstone side Southcote Southcote's Spence statue Stephen Switzer Stourhead Stowe Temple terrace Thomas tower trees Uvedale Price valley Vanbrugh Villa visitors vistas visual walk walls William Kent Willis eds Wilton Wooburn Wood Wotton