European garden design

Összefoglaló

Over its 2 000 year history, stretching from ancient times up until today, European garden art has developed into an important component of Western culture. Having become an art form in is own right, it was at its most extravagant during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, as for example in the parks and gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, the palace gardens of Versailles and the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg. Atmospheric photography and informed text are used to trace wide variety of gardens which have been created throughout European art history. Digressions into specific areas of interest, such as the English garden theories of the 18th and 19th centuries and those of A.J.Dézallier d'Argenville, complete this comprehensive illustrated volume.