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Cet ouvrage ne porte pas uniquement sur l'art des jardins : à partir de l'exemple des jardins de Blois, fondés vers 1500 par Louis XII et Anne de Bretagne, il met en lumière le lien entre architecture et paysage, entre le château et son jardin à la Renaissance. Il accompagne la première exposition entièrement consacrée à ce thème pour cette période, sujet qui a profité depuis 15 ans du développement de l'archéologie et d'un regain d'intérêt des historiens pour l'histoire et la représentation du jardin. Livre et exposition abordent les questions de l'héritage médiéval et de l'influence italienne, qui s'affirme vers 1500 dans les nouveaux jardins des châteaux de Blois. L'apport de l'Italie apparaît dans le rôle croissant de l'architecture pour animer et rythmer la composition des jardins : terrasses et escaliers, portiques et balustrades, fontaines et grottes. Ils révèlent l'intérêt nouveau porté par les habitants du château au jardin et au paysage à partir du milieu du x'. siècle, et l'incidence de l'architecture du château sur l'organisation du jardin. On remarque la spécificité du jardin français qui s'est peu à peu réglé sur le château au point de devenir l'expression la plus forte de son pouvoir de domination sur l'environnement, fonction qu'il n'a jamais eu à un pareil degré en Italie. Le thème des jardins royaux et princiers avant Le Nôtre, est également exploré à travers les exemples du jardin des Tuileries et le rôle de Gaston d'Orléans, qui réunit une collection botanique à Blois et fait aménager les parterres du palais du Luxembourg à Paris.

Gardens, Renaissance --- Landscape gardening --- Architecture, Renaissance --- Jardins de la Renaissance --- Jardins --- Architecture de la Renaissance --- History --- Architecture --- Histoire

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Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.

Gardens, Renaissance --- Gardens, Italian --- Gardens, English --- Influence. --- Italian influences. --- Architecture. --- Cultural Studies. --- Fine Art. --- Garden History. --- History. --- Literature.

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Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.

Garden ornaments and furniture --- Gardens --- Gardens, Renaissance --- Grotesque --- Landscape design --- Monsters --- Psychological aspects --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- Design --- Architecture. --- Fine Art. --- Garden History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.