Essay on gardens : a chapter in the French picturesque translated into English for the first time
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書誌事項
Essay on gardens : a chapter in the French picturesque translated into English for the first time
（Penn studies in landscape architecture）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003
- : cloth
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Essai sur les jardins
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [85]-87)
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. He advances the theory that the useful and the pleasurable must be combined in the planning, preservation, and decoration of the land by offering a relatively novel design that uses experimental methods to create a comfortable estate. The result is a horticultural and ecological laboratory that includes a residence, a farm, stables, a dairy, an apiary, a mill, walks, vistas, flower beds, an area reserved for medicinal plants, decorative statues, a medical laboratory, and even a small infirmary for ailing members of the community.
Given the wide scholarly interest in the field of garden design and its history, this first English edition of Watelet's small but influential book will interest historians of landscape design as well as students of the history of architecture. Joseph Disponzio's informative introduction to Samuel Danon's masterful translation situates the Essay on Gardens within the framework of other landscape and garden treatises of the late eighteenth century.
Although the original text was not illustrated, this edition includes a selection of charming drawings and etchings of Moulin Joli by Watelet himself, Hubert Robert, and others.
目次
Introduction
Essay on Gardens
Foreword
On Gardens
Utilitarian Establishments
The Embellished Farm
Early Parks
Modern Parks
The Nature of the Terrain
Orientation
Trees
Water
Space
Flowers
Rocks and Grottoes
Garden Styles
The Poetic Style
The Romantic Style
Pleasure Gardens
The Chinese Garden
The French Garden-Letter to a Friend
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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