Garden and Grove

by Hunt, John Dixon

• ISBN13: 9780812216042
• ISBN10: 0812216040
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Garden and Groveis 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.

Author Biography

John Dixon Hunt is Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, at the University of Pennsylvania. He edits the international Journal of Garden History and is senior editor of Word and Image. His publications include The Genius of the Place, The Figure in the Landscape, William Kent, and Gardens and the Picturesque.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface to the 1996 Edition	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	xvii
Part One ITALY: THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD	1	(100)
The garden on the Grand Tour	3	(8)
Classical ground and classical gardens	11	(19)
Villa and vigna	30	(12)
Ovid in the garden	42	(17)
Garden and theatre	59	(14)
Cabinets of curiosity	73	(10)
Variety	83	(7)
Art and Nature	90	(11)
Part Two ENGLAND: THE WORLD OF THE GARDEN	101	(122)
`My patterne for a countrey seat'	103	(40)
Elizabethan beginnings
Gardens in the masque
Jacobean garden mania
The Danvers brothers, and Lucy Harington
Grottoes
Wilton House gardens
`The way of Italian gardens'	143	(37)
`Great Changes in Gardens'
Evelyn at Wotton and Albury
Aubrey, and `variety'
Scenes and scenery
The scientific garden
After 1688...
`Palladian' Gardening	180	(43)
How English was the English Landscape Garden?
`Rural Gardening'
Castell, Burlington, and Pope
Kent
The progress of gardening
Notes (together with abbreviations of travel writings used throughout)	223	(38)
Index	261