Irish demesne landscapes, 1660-1740
By: Vandra Costello
Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781846825064
Subjects: Landscape gardening; Architektonischer Garten; History
Description: This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand geometric style that was fashionable between 1660 and 1740. It examines the people who created these gardens, the influences that affected them, the materials that they employed and the uses of landscapes interventions.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: The political, intellectual and economic background to landed estates; title: The changing appearance of the Irish landscape in the seventeenth century; title: Improvement and the culture of improvement; title: Pleasure garderns; title: Horticultural improvement; title: Trees, woodlands and plantations; title: Botanical developments and the physic garden; title: Use and control of water in the seventeenth-century gardern; title: Fiels sports and hunting.