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André Le Nôtre in Perspective

Author : Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin
Publisher : Editions Hazan, Paris
ISBN 13 : 9780300199390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book André Le Nôtre in Perspective written by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and published by Editions Hazan, Paris. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated investigation of the life, work, and legacy of the great 17th-century landscape and garden designer Andr� Le N�tre (1613-1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France's greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La D�fense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener's life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le N�tre's output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le N�tre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, Andr� Le N�tre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world's leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields.

The French Formal Garden

Author : Elisabeth B. MacDougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The French Formal Garden written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gardener of Versailles

Author : Alain Baraton
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847842703
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Gardener of Versailles written by Alain Baraton and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “eccentric and charming” love letter to Versailles Palace and its storied grounds, by the man who knows them best—for gardening lovers and Francophiles (New York Times) Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief describes its fascinating history and his 40 years of living and working in the gardens. In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France’s kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His memoir captures the essence of the connection between gardeners and the earth they tend, no matter how humble or grand. With the charm of a natural storyteller, Baraton weaves his own path as a gardener with the life of the Versailles grounds, and his role overseeing its team of 80 gardeners tending to 350,000 trees and 30 miles of walkways across 2,100 acres. He richly evokes this legendary place and the history it has witnessed but also its quieter side that he feels privileged to know: The same gardens that hosted the lavish lawn parties of Louis XIV and the momentous meeting between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan remain enchanted—private places where visitors try to get themselves locked in at night, lovers go looking for secluded hideaways, and elegant grandmothers secretly make cuttings to take back to their own gardens. A tremendous bestseller in France, The Gardener of Versailles gives an unprecedentedly intimate view of one of the grandest places on earth.

The Sun King's Garden

Author : Ian Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582346313
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Sun King's Garden written by Ian Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre, the gardener.

The World of André Le Nôtre

Author : Thierry Mariage
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234688
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis The World of André Le Nôtre by : Thierry Mariage

Download or read book The World of André Le Nôtre written by Thierry Mariage and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But as Thierry Mariage makes clear in this detailed and lucid book, the garden style that Le Notre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition to the later "English" one; rather, he claims, they represent two points along a continuum that exists between the natural and cultural worlds.

Gardens of Illusion

Author : Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press (TN)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gardens of Illusion written by Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst and published by Vanderbilt University Press (TN). This book was released on 1980 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Le Nostre, the son and grandson of royal master gardeners, was the most influential landscape architect of his time. In this definitive study, Professor Hazlehurst shows how his style developed from a complex of influences: his family background, the classic tradition, French rationalism, and the theories of landscape design propounded by Jacques Boyceau and Claude Mollet. He also traces the impact of Père Niceron, Salomon de Caus, and Simon Vouet on Le Nostre's understanding of the principles of perspective and optical foreshortening. By careful analysis of the sites where Le Nostre is known to have worked, among them Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, the Tuileries, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Versailles, Chantilly, Meudon, and Saint-Cloud, Professor Hazlehurst illustrates his skillful use of optical illusion to introduce vitality and surprise into otherwise coldly formal compositions. More than 370 photographs, plans, and elevation drawings, some in color, are included to show how these illusions were created. Garden of Illusion, the first book-length study of André Le Nostre to appear in almost twenty years, provides important new insights into the practice of landscape gardening not only in France but in the Western world. -- Jacket.

André Le Nôtre

Author : Erik Orsenna
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book André Le Nôtre written by Erik Orsenna and published by New York : G. Braziller. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gardensat Versailles, the most extravagant and influential gardens in European history, emerged from the long association of Louis XIV and his master gardener, Andr Le Ntre. Born in Paris, the son and grandson of gardeners, Le Ntre grew up in the

Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236347
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art written by John Dixon Hunt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mirrors of Infinity:

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568980508
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors of Infinity: written by Allen S. Weiss and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Le Nôtre's Gardens

Author :
Publisher : RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Le Nôtre's Gardens written by and published by RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution. This book was released on 1997 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Gloire

Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570031229
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book La Gloire written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory. Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays.

Overgrown

Author : Julian Raxworthy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547120
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Overgrown written by Julian Raxworthy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.

The Gardens of Versailles

Author : Pierre-André Lablaude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Versailles written by Pierre-André Lablaude and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, the gardens were maintained, restored and replanted, and today they are being further restored to their original state, reflecting the most significant contributions made by each of the preceding periods.

Ours

Author : Cole Swensen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520941564
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Ours written by Cole Swensen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.

The Baroque Landscape

Author : Michael Brix
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Baroque Landscape written by Michael Brix and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) was the greatest landscape architect in France, and his work for Louis XIV laid the groundwork for the baroque style in landscaping. He defined the essence of scientific, rationalist French landscape design - in counterpoint to which the more romantic, naturalistic English tradition later evolved - by basing his work on the state of the art in optics and perspective. The château and gardens at Vaux le Vicomte (approximately 30 miles south of Paris) were begun in 1653. They are the first great landscape designed by André Le Nôtre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in gardening. Many of the principles Le Nôtre tried and tested at Vaux were later employed to great acclaim at Versailles, which he designed at the height of his career" -- From book jacket.

Vaux-le-Vicomte: A Private Invitation

Author : Guillaume Picon
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2081513528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Vaux-le-Vicomte: A Private Invitation written by Guillaume Picon and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive monograph is an exclusive look inside the château that inspired the design of Versailles and today continues to enchant visitors and film directors alike. Vaux-le-Vicomte’s rich history began in 1641 when infamous French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, the original owner, surrounded himself with the most skilled and talented artisans of the time: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André Le Nôtre, to create a perfect harmony between architecture and landscape. The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte and its spectacular gardens fascinated Louis XIV and were the inspiration for Versailles. Classified as a historical monument since 1875 under the impetus of the owner at the time, the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte quickly became a model of the artistic genius of the seventeenth century. This volume traces the château’s history from the seventeenth century through the Belle Époque, World War I, and its public opening in 1968. Exclusive photography and archival documents offer unprecedented access to the château, furnishings, and gardens, and illuminate the extraordinary secrets of court life and centuries of celebrations that include the enchanting candlelit tours held today.

Marie Antoinette and the Last Garden of Versailles

Author : Christian Duvernois
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette and the Last Garden of Versailles written by Christian Duvernois and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm. To escape the formalities and royal obligations of Louis XVI’s court, Marie-Antoinette created a private realm of pleasure for herself at the Petit Trianon and Hameau, where she planted the first Anglo-Chinese garden; created a trysting grotto; a working farm; and revolutionized architecture and gardening trends for the century to come. Marie-Antoinette’s entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by François Halard for the first time since its recent restoration and accompanied by well-researched texts by garden expert Christian Duvernois.