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landscape feature: HAHA WALL

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CHARLES BRIDGEMAN

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Claremont. Eastbury. Stowe

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CHARLES BRIDGEMAN

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“offskips” / borrowed scenery (picture Elsa as a guy in chambers who wants to go out)

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SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS

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Blenheim

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SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS

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demolished formal lines and geometry; picturesque

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LANCELOT CAPABILITY BROWN

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Petworth Park. Warwick Castle

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LANCELOT CAPABILITY BROWN

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French architect, mathematician, and hydraulic engineer;

automata / trick fountains & water jokes in the 17th century garden

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SALOMON DE CAUS

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Hatfield House

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SALOMON DE CAUS

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founder of American Larch; preserve “genius-loci” Roman for genius of the place meaning stripped of religious & political associations to mean the distinctive atmosphere/character of given spot

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ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING

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Evergreens Cemetery NY

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ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING

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“Nature abhors a straight line.”

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WILLIAM KENT

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the 1st British designer to tackle the interior as a whole/extending an architect’s control to every detail of interior deco; rags to riches

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WILLIAM KENT

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cupola (rounded) room designed to have a glaring 4-sided wall

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Kensington Palace by WILLIAM KENT

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Henry the magnificent; English banker & garden owner-designer

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HENRY HOARE II

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Stourhead in Wittshire, estate bought by father

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HENRY HOARE II

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known for his theories of picturesque beauty & for his interest in ancient phallic imagery

phallic architecture - phallus is human penis

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RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT

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estate of Downtown Castle

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RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT

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L’Enfant Plan for the City of Washington

French-American soldier, engineer, architect commissioned to paint Pres. George Washington

fused grid system, avenues, statues & fountains consistent with Versailles’ theme

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PIERRE CHARLES L’ENFANT

Peter

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Washington DC

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PIERRE CHARLES L’ENFANT

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French Larch & principal gardener of King Louis XIV

anamorphosis abscondita (an optical illusion meaning hidden distortion) anamorphosis abscondita creates visual effects, which are not encountered in nature, making the spectacle of gardens designed in this way extremely unusual to the viewer

given carte blanche (complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.)

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ANDRE LENOTRE

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Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte - Baroque French Chateau in France

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ANDRE LENOTRE

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parterre de broderie (on the ground embroidery to frame the central path)

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ANDRE LENOTRE

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Fontainbleau

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ANDRE LENOTRE

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Scottish gardener & architect; major advocate of return to geometric formalism

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JOHN CHARLES LOUDON

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“Gardenesque” - highlight the beauty of exotic place
-in contrast to Picturesque movement

Arboretums - place where trees and shrubs are cultivated for the purpose of observation & study

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JOHN CHARLES LOUDON

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Derby Arboretum

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JOHN CHARLES LOUDON

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English architect, partner of H. Repton

leading architect of picturesque style

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JOHN NASH

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Royal parks of London

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Regent’s Park by JOHN NASH

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London residence & admin HQ of the monarchy of UK; recently “The Queen’s House” under George IV commissioned this person

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Buckingham Palace by JOHN NASH

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English architect & landscape designer

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SIR JOSEPH PAXTON

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Birkenhead Park (that influenced F.L.O. Sr.)

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SIR JOSEPH PAXTON

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1st Baronet (1828) British landscape designer, critic, & farmer; Baronet awarded by Brit. crown w/ the status of commoner but able to use the word “sir”

wealthy country squire, close knit with R.P. Knight

called as “improvement of grounds”

picturesque movement (wild landscapes)

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SIR UVEDALE PRICE

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Foxley (own estate)

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SIR UVEDALE PRICE

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1st to call himself landscape designer; successor to L.C. Brown

published his theories & illustrated designs for individual clients (before and after designs)

picturesque movement (wild landscapes)

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HUMPHRY REPTON

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overlay design proposal by water landscapes

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Red Book by HUMPHRY REPTON

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Sheringham Park, Norfolk - his personal favorite

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HUMPHRY REPTON

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Attingham Park, Shropshire

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HUMPHRY REPTON

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English poet & earliest practitioners of landscape gardening thru the development of his estate;

1st to use “landscape gardening”

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WILLIAM SHENSTONE

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Leasowes Cambridge - own estate, known as landscape garden/ “FERME ORNEE” or ORNAMENTAL FARM

now HALESOWEN GOLF CLUB

“lezoes” meaning rough pasture - a dairy farm to diverse landscape (open grasslands, lakes, & streams)

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WILLIAM SHENSTONE

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1st Baronet, English statesman & essayist;

chinoiserie

characterized “sharawadgi” irregularity

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SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

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business brain, English nurseryman & landscape designer

1st commercial gardeners in England who is skilled in replicating the French Grand Style

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HENRY WISE

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Hampton Court - Melbourne Hall (both in Europe)

Hampton Court Palace, along with St James’ Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many the king owned. The palace is currently in the possession of Queen Elizabeth II and the Crown.

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HENRY WISE

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Palladian Bridge

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WILLIAM KENT

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