The Renaissance garden in England / Roy Strong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strong, Roy.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens, Renaissance--England--History.

Gardens, Renaissance.

Gardens--England--History.

Gardens.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Summary:

The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a lost art form, swept away in a wave of destruction by the later movement toward a more naturalistic landscape style. No examples survive of this era's beautifully sculpted grounds, and we are left only with inaccurate, romanticized reconstructions created in Victorian times. In this pioneering study, however, Roy Strong paints a vivid portrait of such legendary garden complexes as those of Henry VIII's Hampton Court, Lord Burghley's Theobalds, and Lord Pembroke's Wilton.

Using rare plans, diagrams, and engravings from the period, the author evokes not only the lost gardens, but also the people and ideas that led to their creation. Intertwined with this story, which touches on the history of politics, art, architecture, literature, and ideas, are some of the great figures of the age: Francis Bacon, Inigo Jones, the Countess of Bedford, and Charles I.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-233) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

050027214X

OCLC:

40102109