Main entry:

Mariage, Thierry.

Title & Author:

The world of André Le Nôtre / Thierry Mariage ; translated by Graham Larkin ; foreword by John Dixon Hunt.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.

Description:

xv, 144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Translation of: Univers de Le Nostre.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-135) and index.
Foreword / John Dixon Hunt -- 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The Gardens of Versailles - along with the name of their chief creator, Andre Le Notre - have become synonymous with the French style of "formal" garden. This style in its turn would succumb to another "national" mode, the English school of naturalistic and picturesque landscapes. But as Thierry Mariage makes clear in this detailed and lucid book, the garden style that Le Notre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition to the later "English" one; rather, he claims, they represent two points along a continuum that exists between the natural and cultural worlds. He situates Le Notre's garden art in a complex social and cultural world, where the practices of land management, surveying techniques and hydrology, military practice, and both scientific and literary perspectives on land use and experience brought into being a unique form of landscape architecture. His analysis opens up the fashion in which design techniques and garden philosophy are shaped by material culture.

ISBN:

0812234685 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780812234688 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Le Nôtre, André, 1613-1700.
Le Nôtre, André.
Le Nôtre, André 1613-1700
Landscape architects France Biography.
Gardens, French History 17th century.
Gardens France Design History 17th century.
Gardens France History 17th century.
Architectes paysagistes France Biographies.
Jardins France Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins France Design Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins français Histoire 17e siècle.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens
Gardens Design
Gardens, French
Landscape architects
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Landscape architects France 17th century.
France
tuinen
gardens
geschiedenis
history
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
ontwerp
design
frankrijk
france
Garden History
Landscape Architecture (General)
Tuinhistorie
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Biographies
History
Biographies (form)

Added entries:

Hunt, John Dixon
Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202114
Call No.: NA44.L572.9 M3 1999
Status: Available