The history of gardens : Christopher Thacker
Author(s): Thacker, Christopher.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The history of gardens
- Author(s)
- Thacker, Christopher.
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1979
- Collation
- 288 p. : ill.
27 cm. - ISBN
- 9780520056299
- Dewey Class
- 712.09
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1 The Beginnings. Flora's Garden ; The Sacred Grove ; The Gods of the Garden ; The Farm Garden ; The Paradise Garden ; The Small and Useful Garden ; The Private Pleasure Garden in Greece and Rome -- 2 Persian and Islamic Gardens. Persian Gardens ; Mughal Gardens ; Turkish Gardens Moorish Gardens -- 3 Chinese Gardens. The Spirit ; Pleasure Gardens ; The Poet's Garden ; Flower and Trees ; The Garden of Perfect Brightness -- 4 Japanese Gardens. Cherry-blossom, Wine, Poems and Moonlight ; Rules ; From Paradise to Tea to Paradise ; Later Gardens -- 5 Medieval Gardens. The Herb Garden ; Medieval Garden Features ; Fantasy Gardens -- 6 The Renaissance Garden in Italy. Alberti ; The Dream of Poliphilus ; The Villa Medici ; The Villa d'Este ; The Villa Lante ; The Giardino Segreto ; The Villa Aldobrandini ; Bomarzo ; The Villa Garzoni and the Villa Gaspero Massini -- 7 Jokes and Puzzles. The Joke Fountain ; The Verdant Puzzle -- 8 The Renaissance Garden in France and England. Gaillon ; Knots and Conceits ; The Botanic Garden ; The Fantastical Garden ; Sir Francis Bacon ; Salomon de Caus and Joseph Furttenbach ; The Garden -Galleon of Isola Bella -- 9 The Formal French Garden -- 10 Louis XIV and Versailles. The Birth of Versailles ; The Royal Itinerary ; The Glory of Versailles ; The Fountains ; Trianon ; Marly -- 11 The Development of the Formal Garden in Europe. The Shadow of Versailles ; The Dutch Garden ; The Italian Tradition ; Bethlehem and Sanspareil ; The Rococo Garden ; Chinoiserie -- 12 Leaping the Fence. The Genius of the Place ; The Ha-Ha ; Back to Arcady ; William Kent ; Garden Gothic ; Stourhead ; Painshill -- 13 This Perfectly Arcadian Farm. William Shenstone and the Leasowes ; West Wycombe ; Ermenonville -- 14 The Total Landscape. Capability Brown ; The Sublime Garden ; Ruins, Bones, Hermits and Grottoes ; The Terrible Garden ; The Sublime Garden in Germany and France ; Fonthill ; Jean-Jacques Rosseau -- 15 Gardens in the Nineteenth Century. From Picturesque to Gardenesque ; Budding's Lawn Mower ; The Eighteenth-Century Tradition ; Exotic Plants and Wardian Cases ; Eclectic Gardens ; Carpet Bedding and Topiary ; Herbaceous Borders -- 16 The Modern Garden. Nineteenth-Century Survivals ; The Modern Renaissance Garden ; William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll ; Plant Gardens ; Reconstructed Gardens ; Sculpture Gardens ; Twentieth-Century Gardens.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Gardens -- Pictorial works.
Gardens -- History. - BRN
- 3554
Notes
- Includes index.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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712.09 THA
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