Topiary, knots and parterres
By: Caroline Foley
Contributors: European Boxwood and Topiary Society
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781910258187
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Knot gardens; Hedges; Topiary work; Formal gardens; History
Description: "Topiary, knots, and parterres come in many guises, from the grand and imposing to the humble and folksy. In this book Caroline Foley -- with the aid of diarists, writers, wits, designers, gardeners, and garden owners -- traces their story through the centuries and across the world"--Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 284) and index.
Table of contents: title: The patrician gardens of Rome, AD 79-476; title: Byzantium and the Paradise Garden, AD 395-1453; title: Medieval Europe and the Hurtus Conclusus, 5th-15th centuries; title: The Italian renaissance: humanism, the high renaissance and mannerism, 15th-17th centuries; title: The French renaissance, 15th-17th centuries; title: Britain: the Tudors and Stuarts, 1509-1613; title: War in Europe and the Dutch golden age, 1613-1702; title: The swan song of the formal garden: England in the 18th century; title: The Victorian garden: England in the 19th century; title: The landscape movement; title: The victorian garden; title: The arts and crafts movement: the late 19th and early 20th centuries; title: Summing up: into the 21st century.