The English Landscape Garden

Tim Richardson

The English Landscape Garden
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Quarto Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 November 2024
Pages
320
ISBN
9780711290921

The English Landscape Garden

Tim Richardson

Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.

This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a dreamy valley garden which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbeyStowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent's Elysian FieldsChiswick House (London), Lord Burlington's experiment in neoclassical architecturePetworth (Sussex) - of 'Capability' Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral ArcadiaHawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they traverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermitsIncluding much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.

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