Landscape Vocabulary Flashcards
Cocinnitas
a state of a building that everything is in such a harmony with itself that it will only be for the worse if you add or take something.
Rus in urbe
country in the city, ideal of urban planning in which landscape was employed to soften and relief the oppressive hardness of pavements and buildings.
Trivio
a place where three streets met.
Maestri di strada
equivalent to modern planning commissioners
Palisades
space defining tall hedges
Parterre de broderie
an embroidery-like design of decorative scrolls, palmettes, arabesques in herbs, boxwood clipped grass.
Caput mundi
the centre of the world
Parkways
connecting the loosely woven fabric greenery between city dwellers - generously scaled new urban parks filled with rural scenery.
The casino
summerhouse, built as a retreat from the bustle and ceremony of court life.
Topia
landscape paintings of the sacro-idyllic landscapes that decorated ancient roman villa walls.
Belvedere
A beautiful view. Association with a particular type of garden structure. Individual tower or the villa itself for example.
Grottoes
the homes of river gods and nymphs.
Bosco
is een dichte bos zoals bij villa lante. het omringde woud waar je eerst doorheen moet voordat je tot cultivering kunt komen.
Earth works
environmental remedy - stars, sun and moon and with different levels of perceiving.
Zichtlijnen
perspectief illusies opwekken. Zicht houden over eigendom. Zicht geeft extra eigenschap aan de woning. illusie van de zich in het oneindige voortzetten van de ruimte.
Spiegel-as
veroorzaakt tweezijdig perspectief. Inlijving van de horizon. Als verankering van de politieke macht. Chateaux en stad met elkaar verbinden.
locus amoenus
an earthly paradise
Helio caminus
a small heated sun room, where even on a winterday you can sunbathe.
Villa maritima
a seaside villa, a popular pleasure resort for wealthy romans.
Villa suburbana
a villa located in the outskirts of the city.
Giardano segreto
a secluded and enclosed garden room, a place of intimate contact with nature within a larger Renaissance garden.
Hortus conclusus
walled garden
Villa urbana
a villa rustica build in city style architecture
Cariatide
Pilaren in de vorm van vrouwen die de last van de wereld dragen.
Nymphaeum
a grotto inhabited by sculptural representations of nymphs.
Canopus
a long partially colonnaded canal terminated by a large hooded entrance hall. A dramatic banqueting setting.
Fontanieri
virtuous hydraulic engineers with an understanding of metaphysics as well as physics and reputation akin of that of magicians.
Patte d’oie
Goose foot. A three-pronged set of radial avenues.
Stibadium
semicircular dining couch with water flowing beneath it.
Villa rustica
earliest villa form. a place of plenty and peace. using the virtues of agrarian life.
Barco
a park for hunting
Giocchie d’aqua
water-games
Otium
mental and physical leisure. away from urban business, politics and society (holiday).
Faubourgs
Suburban settlements, outside of the big flourishing cities directly at the gates. Taxes could be avoided here.
Latifundia
large rural establishments
Triclinium
formal dining place mostly outside in a roman design
Cardo
an axis with parallel axes next to it.
Decumanus
an axis perpendicular to the cardo with parallel axis next to it.
Barchesse
an utilitarian farm building
Diaeta
living-room
Fermee ornee
farm as landscape. ornamenting ordinary farmland with monuments that evoked sensations, heightened the interest and stimulate emotions.
Hypnerotomachia poliphili
an expressive companion of vocabulary of garden design idioms. Maths, myths, geometry and allegory were now firmly joined.
De tuin
de tuin staat/stond voor geszondheid, welvaart, zedelijkheid en familiezin, tot wering van drankzucht, armoede en werkeloosheid.
Medieval garden
voornamelijk functioneel gebruikt voor voedsel en medicijnen
Broderie
A very curly decorative pattern within a parterre, created with trimmed yew or boxwood or made by cutting a pattern.
Parterre
planting bed, usually square or rectangular, containing an ornamental design made with low closely clipped hedges, colored gravel.
Orangerie
glasstuinbouw, oorspronkelijk voor oranjebomen, met hoge ramen voor zonnelicht.
