The Invention of the Western Garden
The History of an Idea
bys Matteo Vercelloni and Virgilio Vercelloni

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Author(s)

Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni

Publication, year

Glasgow : Waverley Books, 2010

Scope

280 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.

ISBN

9781849340397

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The book examines the concept of 'garden' in how it has been absorbed into the culture of 'urban planning' today. The Renaissance Italian garden spread as a concept and design throughout Italy and beyond to France, Germany, Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal until the 18th century, when the ideas of Lancelot Brown and William Kent (that the garden encompassed the whole landscape) took hold and the English came to lead the world in landscape gardening. In the 19th century there was the concept of the public garden – a garden for everyone.

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Location

Cabinet 24 - 5: Natuur in de stad ; parken en tuinen

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.