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Impediments to garden development in England.
Plague, war and Henry the VIII
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Knot garden
The Tudor Knot garden. Used interwoven herbs and floral design.
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Tudor and Eliabethan period gardens. fashionable well into the 17th C England.
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Foreign influence on English Gardens
French-Mollet, Le Jardin de Plaisir, Vaux le Vicomte; Dutch-espalier, topiary; Chinese-Sir William temple 'sharawadgi'
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Sir William Temple
"sharawadgi" guy. Wrote Upon the Gardens of Epicurus.
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Hampton Court
Case study of Eclecticism. Brown didnt touch this, thankfully. French influence on English Garden design.
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Timid beginnings in experimentation in English landscapes
Organic design. Grotto tunnel
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Ha-ha wall
Charles Bridgeman. Opened up the view of the landscape
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William Kent
Dubbed the father of modern gardening
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Chiswick House
Palladian Style. By Vanbrugh. Kent's Serpentine lake.
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Rousham
Eye catchers. Foreground, Middle, Back. Artificial Ruins. Statues.
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Stowe
Bridgeman plan 1715, very linear. Architectural neo-classicism. Kent softened the plan, palladian bridge. Temple of ancient virtue. Capability Brown in 1750
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Stourhead
Village in foreground, pantheon in distance.
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neo-classical
Return to the purity of classical form
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Claudian
after the painter Claude Lorraine
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Painterly
Series of viewpoints
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Circuit garden
meant to follow a prescribed path
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Allegorical
Tells a story
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line of beauty
William hogarth, analysis of beauty
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Lancelot "capability" Brown
Famous for lakes, and grasses flowing right up to the house. Planted in clumps
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Palimpcest
Overlay effect, with plans and sometimes with old writings, monks etc.
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Bridge at Bleinham
Capability brown flooded the river to make the bridge more fitting. The tree plan looks mothy after Brown changed it.
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Beautiful
Smooth delicate, regular, harmonious
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Sublime
rough, gloomy, violent, gigantic, untouched
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Picturesque vs. the sublime
Edmund burke 1757
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Romanticism
Sublime style. Sketches by William Gilpin
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Hermitage structures
Inspired by writings of Rousseau. Structures in rustic style. Somewhere a hermit would live.
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The Gardenesque
Gardens of artifact.
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Sir william Chambers
Design of the Chinese- Kew gardens.
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Humphrey Repton
The "Red Book" with lift-up flap revealing proposed design.
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