English Rococo Garden

Name: English Rococo Garden
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ISBN: 9780747806257

ISBN-10: 074780625X

ISBN-13: 9780747806257

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Michael Symes

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Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre these are some of the adjectives that describe an intriguing branch of the eighteenth-century English garden. This book relates the components of the rococo garden to movements in art, architecture, sculpture and porcelain which had developed in Britain and in Europe. It was an expression of a period in time, following baroque and neo-Palladian and looking ahead to romanticism in its freedom from strict rules. Most of the enchanting scenes depicted in Thomas Robins's watercolours have disappeared, but there are many garden buildings from the period that survive. The styles which overlap with rococo Gothic, chinoiseries, rustic are considered, as…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 7/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.28" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Michael Symes is a garden historica based at Birkbeck Collage, London. For many years he has taught garden history to adults in university extra-mural classes and he has published a number of books in addition to specialist articles. He is on the Council of the Garden History Society.