Nature and art : Dutch garden and landscape architecture, 1650-1740 /
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| Author / Creator: | Jong, E. de (Erik) |
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| Uniform title: | Natuur en kunst. English |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xii, 228 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn studies in landscape architecture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4495234 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. For Profit and Ornament: Garden Art in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
- 1. Country Life as an Ideal
- Jan van de Groen and His Treatise
- Ideal Country Life
- The Authority of Garden Poets
- Biblical and Classical Examples
- The History of Garden Art
- The Art of Peace
- Italian Origins
- French Landscape Architecture
- Gardens and Country Life in the Netherlands
- 2. Concepts of Nature and Art
- Structure and the Land
- Classicism as a Style and as Fashion
- Nature as Object of Study and Collection
- Nature and Allegory
- The Dilettante
- Pt. II. Dutch Hesperides
- 3. The Garden of Venus and Hercules: Het Loo as Political Propaganda for Stadholder-King William III
- Historical Background
- Source Material
- A Political Career
- Propaganda
- The Construction of the Garden
- The Need for an Iconographic Program
- Designers
- De Hooghe and Bentinck
- William III and Bentinck
- The Garden
- Venus
- Garden of Love
- Microcosm
- Royal Virtues
- Hercules
- William III and Louis XIV
- "Theatrum Politicum"
- 4. Dutch Arcadia: Diderick van Velthuysen and the Garden of Heemstede as a Classical Landscape
- The Patron and His Estate
- Heemstede
- Diderick van Velthuysen
- The Estate in 1680
- Dating the Evolution of Heemstede
- The Poems and Prints as Source Material
- Isaac de Moucheron's Representation of the Garden
- Lukas Rotgans and Heemstede in Poetry
- The Garden
- The Main Axis
- From the Star-Shaped Wood to the Game Park
- The Woods and the Hunt
- A Classical Landscape
- The Kitchen Garden and Orangery
- The Pleasure Garden
- The Garden as a "Theater"
- 5. Nature and Virtue: Zijdebalen and David van Mollem
- Country Estates Along the Vecht River and Their Owners
- David van Mollem
- A Portrait
- A Mennonite Patron
- Zijdebalen: "An Eden of Our Time"
- Mennonites and Nature
- The Dilettante
- A Tour Through the Garden
- The Miraculous Theater of Nature
- "A David of Our Time"
- 6. Hortus Sanitatis: The Hortus Botanicus and the Hortus Medicus as Scientific Gardens
- A Garden in the City: For Instruction and Entertainment
- Trees on the Street
- Greenery as an "Ornament"
- Health and Entertainment
- Gardens in the City
- Mazes as an Urban Attraction
- The Hortus of Leiden
- The Muses
- The Garden as a Musaeum
- A Hortus Botanicus
- A Gallery in Front of the Garden
- The Gallery as Museum
- The Contents of the Gallery
- Beauty in Nature
- Collecting
- The Hortus Medicus in Haarlem
- A Collegium Medicum
- A Hortus Medicus
- Romeyn de Hooghe
- The Decorative Program
- A Garden of Scholars
- The Garden as a Book. App. Inventories of the Hortus of Leiden
- Afterword / John Dixon Hunt.
