Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art
Subtitle: Chapters of a New History (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
Contributors: John Dixon Hunt (Editor); Michel Conan (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780812236347
Subjects: Architecture; France; 18th century; Landscape; History; Gardens; Architecture / Landscape; 17th century; Congresses; Gardens, French
First sentence: In his portrait of the French court at the end of the seventeenth century, the duc de Saint-Simon assessed the contributions and career of Andre Le Notre on the occasion of the gardener's death.