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"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art."--Country Life
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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.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 52 books | 16 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: rural gardening, classical gardening, masque designs, des forces mouvantes, anonymous traveller (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Villa D'Este, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Lante, Inigo Jones, John Evelyn (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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'Such a rabble of English roam now in Italy.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rural gardening, classical gardening, masque designs, des forces mouvantes, anonymous traveller, water theatre, garden history, garden imagery, garden scenery, classical gardens, memory theatre, anonymous visitor, garden experience, landscape movement, garden art, hydraulic effects, classical imagery, modern gardens, hydraulic machinery, classical ground Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Villa D'Este, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Lante, Inigo Jones, John Evelyn, Royal Society, Villa Borghese, Boboli Gardens, Italian Renaissance, Moor Park, John Raymond, Villa Ludovisi, Villa Medici, Fynes Moryson, Vatican Belvedere, William Kent, William Stukeley, John Aubrey, Joseph Spence, Salomon de Caus, Sir Henry Wotton, Villa Doria Pamphili, Villa Giulia, Elysian Fields, Isaac de Caus New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!