The English Landscape Garden av Tim Richardson

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<B>Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.</B><BR/><BR/> This <B>sumptuous, beautifully photographed </B>volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including: <ul><li> Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a <B>dreamy valley garden</B> which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey </li><li> Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent’s Elysian Fields </li><li> Chiswick House (London), <B>Lord Burlington’s experiment in neoclassical architecture</B></li><li> Petworth (Sussex) – of ‘Capability’ Brown