Title & Author:

André Le Nôtre in perspective / edited by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat.

Publication:

Versailles : Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles ; Paris : Hazan ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2013.

Description:

412 pages : color illustrations, maps, portraits, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition André Le Nôtre in Perspective, 1613-2013 at the Château de Versailles from October 22, 2013 to February 23, 2014"--Title page verso.
"André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France's greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener's life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre's output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world's leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields."--Publisher description.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-407) and indexes.
Le Nôtre in history / Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin-Georges Farhat -- A king and his gardens: power and sociability / Olivier Chaline -- Beyond the myth: Le Nôtre's origins and family connections, status, standing, and patrons / Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin -- A key figure at the Bâtiments du Roi: André Le Nôtre, Contrôleur Général (1657-1700) / Benjamin Ringot -- Painted and engraved portraits of André Le Nôtre: the shaping of an image / Nicolas Milovanovic -- Drawing in Paris during André Le Nôtre's formative years (c. 1627-1635) / Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc -- Le Nôtre and the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns: optics and perspective, visual art and instrumentation / Georges Farhat -- Poussin and Le Nôtre / Pierre Rosenberg -- Le Nôtre's collection of paintings, mirror of the collection of Louis XIV / Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée -- André Le Nôtre's paintings: new thoughts on the creation and dispersal of an art collection / François Marandet -- From Le Nôtre's cabinet to Louis XIV's collection / Stéphane Castelluccio -- Le Nôtre's collection of bronzes / Stéphane Castelluccio -- The medals of André Le Nôtre / Thierry Sarmant -- The print collection of André Le Nôtre / Vanessa Selbach -- Le Nôtre's sculptors / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier -- Le Nôtre's collection of oriental porcelain / Stéphane Castelluccio -- Le Nôtre at work / Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin -- The spade and the compass? Reflections on Le Nôtre and architects / Alexandre Gady -- Great vistas in the work of Le Nôtre / Georges Farhat -- Versailles: a territory for Le Nôtre's art / Vincent Maroteaux -- Garden hydraulics in the days of André Le Nôtre / Frédéric Sichet -- From basin to fountain: Le Nôtre before Le Brun in the gardens of Versailles / Thomas Hedin -- The Bassin de Latone on the king's estate of Versailles in 1687 / Daniella Malnar -- Parterres and floral embellishments in the royal residences of Louis XIV / Gabriela Lamy and Felice Olivesi -- Soil evidence for Le Nôtre's work in the Tuileries gardens / Anne Allimant-Verdillon -- From shaded lanes to stands of timber: trees and groves in seventeenth-century gardens / Jérôme Buridant -- Sculptures in the gardens of Le Nôtre / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier -- Le Nôtre, the Parterre d'Eau, and the "grande commande" of 1674 / Alexandre Maral -- Carlo Vigarani and Le Nôtre: the creation of the Théâtre d'Eau / Jérôme de La Gorce -- The théâtre d'Eau: archaeological insights / Annick Heitzmann -- A matter of taste: the operational function of the garden in the time of Le Nôtre / Erik A. de Jong -- Revisiting English gardens, 1630-1730: the French connection in Britannia / Mark Laird -- Le Nôtre, a view from Sweden / Magnus Olausson -- The reception of Le Nôtre and the French style in the Holy Roman Empire / Clemens Alexander Wimmer with Martin Schaefer -- Looking for the meaning of the gardens at Versailles / Gérard Sabatier -- After Le Nôtre in France: the adaptability of historiography / Monique Mosser -- Modernity: Le Nôtre and Versailles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Georges Farhat.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Award of Excellence in Biography, 2014

Summary:

"André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France's greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener's life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre's output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world's leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields."-- Publisher description.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300199390
0300199392

Subject:

Le Nôtre, André, 1613-1700 Exhibitions.
Le Nôtre, André, 1613-1700.
Le Nôtre, André 1613-1700
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Exhibitions.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Expositions.
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Gardens, French History 17th century Exhibitions.
Gardens France Design History 17th century Exhibitions.
Landscape design France History 17th century Exhibitions.
Landscape architects France Biography.
Jardins français Histoire 17e siècle Expositions.
Aménagement paysager France Histoire 17e siècle Expositions.
Architectes paysagistes France Biographies.
Gardens Design.
Gardens, French.
Landscape architects.
Landscape design.
Gartenkunst
Landscape architecture France History 17th century Exhibitions.
France.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Bouchenot-Déchin, Patricia.
Farhat, Georges.

Le Nôtre in perspective

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285308
Call No.: BIB 224715
Status: Available