Essay on Gardens : A Chapter in the French Picturesque / Claude-Henri Watelet; Samuel Danon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watelet, Claude-Henri, author.

Contributor:

Danon, Samuel, editor.

Disponzio, Joseph.

Series:

Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

Standardized Title:

Essai sur les jardins. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picturesque, The--Early works to 1800.

Picturesque, The.

Gardens, French--Early works to 1800.

Gardens, French.

Gardens--France--Early works to 1800.

Gardens.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Disponzio, Joseph

Foreword

On Gardens

Utilitarian Establishments

The Embellished Farm (La Ferme Ornee)

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [85]-87).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780812204131

0812204131

OCLC:

868967294