Garden and Grove : : The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 / / John Dixon Hunt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hunt, John Dixon,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 113 illus.

Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- List of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the 1996 Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. Italy: The Garden of the World -- 1. The Garden on the Grand Tour -- 2. Classical Ground And Classical Gardens -- 3. Villa and Vigna -- 4. Ovid in the garden -- 5. Garden and theatre -- 6. Cabinets of curiosity -- 7. Variety -- 8. Art and Nature -- Part Two. England: The World of the Garden -- 9. 'My Patterne for a Countrey Seat' -- 10. 'The Way Of Italian Gardens' -- 11. 'Palladian' Gardening -- Notes -- Index