The World of Andre Le Notre
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The World of André Le NôtreThierry Mariage. Translated by Graham LarkinA stimulating effort to contextualize Le Nôtres career and to relate the French formal garden to the cultural and political environment of Louis XIVs reign.--French HistoryThis ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and cogently presented. . . . Excellent.--Geographical ReviewsA substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French garden practice.--Landscape ArchitectureThe gardens of Versailles--along with the name of their chief creator, André Le Nôtre (1613-1700)--have become synonymous with the French style of formal garden. This style in its turn would succumb to another national mode, the English school of naturalistic and picturesque landscapes. But as Thierry Mariage makes clear, the garden style that Le Nôtre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition to the later English one. Rather, he claims, they represent two points along a continuum that exists between the natural and cultural worlds.Published originally in Belgium as Lunivers de Le Nostre, Mariages examination of Le Nôtre moves beyond traditional art historical documentation and appreciation into a realm of interpretation. He situates Le Nôtres garden art in a complex social and cultural world, where the practices of land management, surveying techniques and hydrology, military practice, and both scientific and literary perspectives on land use and experience brought into being a unique form of landscape architecture. His analysis opens up the fashion in which design techniques and garden philosophy are shaped by material culture.Thierry Mariage is Architect for National and Historical Monuments, in charge of Versailles Museum, Park, and Gardens.Graham Larkin is Curator of European and American Art at the National Gallery of Canada.Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture1998 | 168 pages | 7 x 10 | 38 illus.ISBN 978-0-8122-2136-7 | Paper | $26.50s
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