The Tudor house and garden : architecture and landscape in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Paula Henderson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Henderson, Paula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture, Tudor.
• Architecture, Domestic--England.
• Architecture, Domestic.
• Landscape design.
• History.
• England.
• Landscape design--England--History--16th century.
• Landscape design--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

vii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2005]

Contents:

• The setting
• "A great magnificence in the front": the orchestrated approach
• The greater perfection
• Natural considerations
• The architecture of the 'earthly paradise'
• Ornament and meaning in the garden
• The house and the landscape.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-277) and index.

ISBN:

0300106874

OCLC:

56755622