TY - BOOK ID - 101309387 TI - Chanteloup, the renaissance garden of the Villeroys : an initiation to humanism AU - Dejean, Matthieu AU - Galand-Willemen, Perrine AU - Lurin, Emmanuel PY - 2022 SN - 9782600062305 2600062300 PB - Genève : Librairie Droz, DB - UniCat KW - Gardens, Renaissance KW - Humanism in architecture KW - Architecture KW - Renaissance gardens KW - Gardens KW - Styles KW - Jardins de la Renaissance. KW - L'Aubespine, Madeleine de KW - Villeroy, Nicolas de Neufville KW - Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon (Essonne) KW - Château de Chanteloup. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101309387 AB - The garden of the Chanteloup castle (Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon), owned by the Villeroy-Neufville family, was one of the wonders of the French Renaissance, which could compete with the great Italian gardens of the time. Perrine Galand-Willemen and Matthieu Dejean revive this exceptional artistic creation in its historical and intellectual context. The authors have studied several travel guides and a long Latin poem entitled Cantilupum (Paris, 1587; 1588), which describes the meanders of the garden. Cantilupum was written by Madeleine de L'Aubespine-Villeroy (1546-1596), wife of Secretary of State Nicolas IV de Neufville-Villeroy, lady of honour of Catherine de' Medici, woman of letters whom Ronsard considered his spiritual daughter. The garden of Chanteloup housed an extraordinary set of topiaries (carved shrubs), automata, statues, models and fountains, which recreated Roman civilization and offered an initiatory, stoic-Christian course to the walker. ER -