Landscape gardens Landscape
stourhead garden, wiltshire, england
jichang garden in wuxi (1506–1521)
the chinese garden landscape garden style has evolved on 3 thousand years. includes both vast gardens of chinese emperors , members of imperial family, built pleasure , impress, , more intimate gardens created scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers , merchants, made reflection , escape outside world. create idealized miniature landscape, meant express harmony should exist between man , nature. typical chinese garden enclosed walls , includes 1 or more ponds, scholar s rocks, trees , flowers, , assortment of halls , pavilions within garden, connected winding paths , zig-zag galleries. moving structure structure, visitors can view series of composed scenes, unrolling scroll of landscape paintings.
the english landscape garden, called english landscape park or english garden , style of parkland garden intended though might natural landscape, although may extensively re-arranged. emerged in england in 18th century, , spread across europe, replacing more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of 17th century principal style large parks , gardens in europe. english garden (and later french landscape garden) presented idealized view of nature. drew inspiration paintings of landscapes claude lorraine , nicolas poussin, , classic chinese gardens of east, had been described european travellers , realized in anglo-chinese garden, , philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau (1712 – 1778).
the english garden included lake, sweeps of gently rolling lawns set against groves of trees, , recreations of classical temples, gothic ruins, bridges, , other picturesque architecture, designed recreate idyllic pastoral landscape. work of lancelot capability brown , humphry repton particularly influential. end of 18th century english garden being imitated french landscape garden, , far away st. petersburg, russia, in pavlovsk, gardens of future emperor paul. had major influence on form of public parks , gardens appeared around world in 19th century.
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