Main entry:

Guerniero, Giovanni Francesco, 1665-1745.

Title & Author:

Delineatio montis a metropoli Hasso-Cassellana uno circiter milliari distantis qui olim Winter-Casten, id est, Hiemis Receptaculum, dicebatur, nunc autem Carolinus audit, ob aedificia & aquarum fontes quibus ... Carolus, Landgravius Hassiae, Princeps Hersfeldiae, Comes Cattimeliboci, Deciae, Ziegenhainae, Niddae & Schaumburgi, &c. / illum posteritatis monumento magnifice exornavit opera Ioannis Francisci Guernerii ...

Publication:

Cassellis [Kassel, Germany] : Typis Huteri & Harmes, Aulae Hassiacae Typographi, MDCCXLIX [1749]

Description:

31 unnumbered leaves (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 45 cm

Notes:
Added title page has imprint, in French: [À] Rome & reimprimé à Cassel, par Huter & Harmes, MDCCXLIX, Imprimeurs de la Cour.
Plates engraved by Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Francesco Andreoni, Alexander Speculi, and Giovanni Girolamo Frezza after Guerniero's designs.
Engraved title vignette (coats of arms) (same engraved vignette on each title page); tail-piece; decorative initials;
Added title page in French: Plans et desseins des batimens, cascades et fontaines dont Charles landgrave de Hesse, Prince de Hersfeld, Comte de Cattemellenbogue, Dietz, Ziegenhain, Nidde et Schambourg &c. &c. a decoré la montagne vulgairement nommée la Montagne d'hiver, située à la distance d'une heure de la ville de Cassel, capital des païs de Hesse mais à présent appellée Caroline ... / le tout mis en execution par Jean François Guernière ... A Rome et réimprimé à Cassel : Huter & Harmes, 1749.
"Originally laid out in the Baroque style of the Giardino all'Italiana and the French formal garden, with water features running downhill in cascades to Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, [the garden] was later re-arranged into an English landscape garden. During a Grand Tour through Italy in 1699/1700, the Hessian Landgrave Charles I. got to know the Roman architect and master builder, Giovanni Francesco Guerniero (1665-1745) and hired him to realize his ideas for a Baroque park in Kassel. Guerniero created the Hercules Monument and the associated extensive grounds of the cascades in Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel starting in 1701. When the project could not be completed due to planning errors and lack of money, Guerniero left for Italy again before the construction work was stopped. In the course of the extension and modifications, Heinrich Christoph Jussow, apart from contributing to the design of the palace, created constructions still characterizing the park today: artificial ruins like the Löwenburg (Lion's Castle) and the Roman aqueduct, as well as extensions of the water garden like the Lac, the fountain pond, and the Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) with the Höllenteich (Hell's Pond). In 1793, Karl Steinhöfer added the Steinhöfer Waterfall to the water garden."--Antiquariat Michael Kühn June 2021 catalog, page 20.
Introductory material in French, Italian, German and Latin; captions in Latin.

Summary:

A set of large engravings illustrating the famous 18th century German garden Wilhelmshöhe, also known as the Bergpark ("The Mountain Park"), commissioned by the Landgrave Charles I of Hesse-Kassel and executed by the Italian architect Giovanni Francesco Guerniero. The engravings show plans, elevations and details as well as overall views of various buildings, gardens, waterfalls, grottos and pavilions in elaborate Baroque style.

Subject:

Schloss Kassel (Kassel, Germany)
Schlosspark Wilhelmshöhe (Kassel, Germany)
Gardens Design History 18th century.
Gardens Germany Kassel Early works to 1800.
Parks Germany Kassel Early works to 1800.
Water in landscape architecture Germany Kassel Early works to 1800.
Fountains Germany Kassel Early works to 1800.
Castles Germany Kassel Early works to 1800.
Jardins Architecture Histoire 18e siècle.
Fontaines Allemagne Kassel Ouvrages avant 1800.
Jardins Allemagne Kassel Ouvrages avant 1800.
Eau dans l'architecture du paysage Allemagne Kassel Ouvrages avant 1800.
Water in landscape architecture
Parks
Gardens Design
Gardens
Fountains
Castles
Wilhelmshöhe (Kassel, Germany)
Germany Kassel Schlosspark Wilhelmshöhe
Germany Kassel
Germany Kassel Wilhelmshöhe

Form/genre:

History
Early works

Added entries:

Frezza, Giovanni Girolamo, 1659-1743, engraver.
Andreoni, Francesco.
Venturini, Giovanni Francesco, 1650- engraver.
Specchi, Alessandro, 1668-1729, engraver.
Karl, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel, 1654-1730.

Plans et desseins des batimens, cascades et fontaines, dont Charles Landgrave de Hesse ... a decoré la montagne vulgairement nommée la Montagne d'Hiver

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 30835
Call No.: 0006169
Status: Available