The English Landscape Garden

Historical Context Essay

Robert Clark (The Literary Encyclopedia); Caroline Holmes (University of Cambridge)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Domains

Landscape and Gardens

Dates

Date of occurrence 1600-1818

Places

United Kingdom (Location)

Resources

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Beginnings

Probably the most influential garden from European antiquity surrounded the villa built for the emperor Hadrian at Tivoli near Rome. Remnants of this garden have survived to this day and were to have considerable influence during the Renaissance. The garden as a whole covered approximately 7 square miles (18 square kilometres), and included theatres, baths, libraries, sculpture gardens and pavilions of an enormous extent. It was in fragments rather than in its entirety that Tivoli was to prove influential.

Most of the other early gardens we know of in Greece (5^th century BCE), around Roman villas, in the Islamic …

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Citation: Clark, Robert, Caroline Holmes. "The English Landscape Garden". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 November 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1509, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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