The grand manner : changing style in garden design, 1660-1735

Author

Jacques, David

Document type

Thèse

Language

English

Source

Ph.D.; Courtauld Institute (University of London); 1999; typescript ; 141 ill., bibliogr. ; 2 v. (405 p., [141] p. of pl.) ; sd

Abstract (en)

Investigates changing style in the leading gardens of the period beween the Restoration of Charles II and a date close to the generally accepted start of the landscape garden. At its outset, the pre-Civil War courtly garden was still remembered in plain grass-and-gravel layouts, but increasingly from the late 1670s the leading gardens were intended to emulate the achievements of France and the Netherlands. Foreign example was not necessarily adopted slavishly, but was interpreted to produce an English version of continental style. After the turn of the century the gardens of England began to diverge more markedly from their continental models, as "rural gardens" became fashionable in a boom period between 1715 and 1730. The histories of 358 places were investigated and analysed for 111 garden elements at every major phase of garden construction, and the data placed on a computer database. The success of the diagnostic approach should enable more accurate attributions of gardens to their dates of construction. It should also provide a more analytical approach to the garden history of the period. Some of the factors hitherto claimed as influences on garden style were tested by examining whether there are correlations between these supposed influences and the garden elements appearing at the same time.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Gardens -- United Kingdom
• Dissertations
• Great Britain
• Gardens
• 1600-1800
• Style
• Databases

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Jardins -- Royaume-Uni
• Thèse
• Grande-Bretagne
• Jardin
• 1600-1800
• Style
• Base de données

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00213579

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