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Landscape Gardens (Paperback)
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Landscape Gardens (Paperback)
Series: Britain's Heritage
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The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution
that overthrew the parterres, avenues and canals of formal
European-style gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century.
Thousands of landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often
looking so natural that we hardly recognise them as the hand of
man. Steered by brilliant designers and visionary owners, the
fashion for landscape gardens took hold across the country. Using
water, grass and trees, designers softened lines and created
seemingly natural planted park landscapes. Landscape gardens were
on a huge scale, and all the work was done by hand. By the 1750s
this had developed into the landscape park and garden epitomised by
'Capability' Brown, the most famous of the eighteenth-century
garden designers. In this book by garden historian Sarah
Rutherford, discover Britain's greatest contribution to the visual
arts worldwide. This book is part of the Britain's Heritage series,
which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain's
past, and is the perfect way to get acquainted with landscape
gardens in all their variety.
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