Salomon de Caus has been viewed as, variously, a Protestant martyr,
the unsung inventor of the steam engine, one of the most important
early hydraulic engineers, and a garden designer whose work was
influenced by astrology and hermeticism. The first comprehensive
book on this protean figure, Nature as Model sifts through
historical material, Caus's own writings, and his extant landscape
designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life
of this polymathic and prolific figure. In doing so, it clarifies
numerous hitherto unresolved problems in his biography and
historiography. As Luke Morgan shows, Caus made important
contributions to some of the most significant landscape projects of
his period, including the gardens of Coudenberg Palace in Brussels,
Richmond Palace, Hatfield House, Somerset House, Greenwich Palace
in London, as well as, most famously, the Hortus Palatinus in
Heidelberg, which he designed for the Elector Palatine, Frederick
V, and his wife, Elisabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England.
In his work, Caus drew on his intimate knowledge of the late
sixteenth-century Italian garden, and through his commissions the
design principles and motifs of the late Renaissance garden were
transmitted across Europe. The book is a masterful exercise in
historical reconstruction, showing how Caus has been read by
subsequent generations intent on nationalism, romance, or magic.
Morgan investigates the ways in which the early modern garden
actually generated meaning through conventional motifs rather than
through esoteric narrative programs.
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