About the book
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.
Editions of Garden and Grove
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780812216042
- PDF
- ISBN 9780812292787
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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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What is Garden and Grove about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Garden and Grove?
The Arts > Architecture > Landscape architecture and design
Where can I read a sample of Garden and Grove?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780812216042
How long is Garden and Grove and how many pages does it have?
Garden and Grove has 288 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Garden and Grove?
John Dixon Hunt
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Garden and Grove is available as paperback(ISBN 9780812216042) and pdf(ISBN 9780812292787)
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