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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thierry Mariage , Graham LarkinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.293kg ISBN: 9780812221367ISBN 10: 0812221362 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 15 September 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Introduction 1. Establishment of the Classic Landscape —Mutations of the Seigneurial Residence —Protectionist Policies and Economic Planning —The Rehabilitation of the French Nobility 2. The Generation of Planners —The Milieu and Corporation of Gardeners —Practical Geometry and Measuring Instruments —Conceptions of Landscape 3. Theory and Forms of the French Garden —From Agronomy to Aesthetics —The Precepts of Boyceau de la Baraudiere —Symbolism of the Classic Garden and Origins of the Constitutive Parts —Some Gardens from the First Half of the Seventeenth Century —Critical Analysis of Courances —The Originality of Vaux —Fragments of Le Notre's Theory and Typical Features of His Style 4. Parks, Forests, and Planning —The Surintendance des Batiments du Roi —Regional-Scale Planning at Versailles —Regulation of Space Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Translator's AcknowledgmentsReviewsA stimulating effort to contextualize Le Notre's career and to relate the 'French formal garden' to the cultural and political environment of Louis XIV's reign. -French History This ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and cogently presented... Excellent. -Geographical Reviews A substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French garden practice. -Landscape Architecture """A stimulating effort to contextualize Le Nôtre's career and to relate the 'French formal garden' to the cultural and political environment of Louis XIV's reign."" * <i>French History</i> * ""This ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and cogently presented. . . . Excellent."" * <i>Geographical Reviews</i> * ""A substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French garden practice."" * <i>Landscape Architecture</i> *" A stimulating effort to contextualize Le Notre's career and to relate the 'French formal garden' to the cultural and political environment of Louis XIV's reign. -French History This ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and cogently presented. . . . Excellent. -Geographical Reviews A substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French garden practice. -Landscape Architecture A stimulating effort to contextualize Le Notre's career and to relate the 'French formal garden' to the cultural and political environment of Louis XIV's reign. -French History This ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and cogently presented... Excellent. -Geographical Reviews A substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French garden practice. -Landscape Architecture Author InformationThierry Mariage is Architect for National and Historical Monuments, in charge of Versailles Museum, Park, and Gardens. Graham Larkin is Curator of European and American Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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