Gardens and the Picturesque

Gardens and the Picturesque
Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262581318

A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".

Public Parks, Private Gardens

Public Parks, Private Gardens
Author: Colta Ives
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588395847

The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era’s great Impressionist artists. The renewed landscape gave crowded, displaced urban dwellers green spaces to enjoy, while suburbanites and country-dwellers began cultivating their own flower gardens. As public engagement with gardening grew, artists increasingly featured flowers and parks in their work. Public Parks, Private Gardens includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet, and Seurat. Many of these artists were themselves avid gardeners, and they painted parks and gardens as the distinctive scenery of contemporary life. Writing from the perspective of both a distinguished art historian and a trained landscape designer, Colta Ives provides new insights not only into these essential works, but also into this extraordinarily creative period in France’s history.

My Four Seasons in France

My Four Seasons in France
Author: Janine Marsh
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1789290481

In this follow up to My Good Life in France, Janine Marsh tells of the delights and dramas of getting to grips with rural life in northern France.

The Parks, Promenades, & Gardens of Paris, Described and Considered in Relation to the Wants of Our Own Cities, and the Public and Private Gardens

The Parks, Promenades, & Gardens of Paris, Described and Considered in Relation to the Wants of Our Own Cities, and the Public and Private Gardens
Author: W. Robinson
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781376830842

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