Le Nôtre's Gardens
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Publisher | : RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Publisher | : RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Author | : Alain Baraton |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0847842703 |
An “eccentric and charming” love letter to Versailles Palace and its storied grounds, by the man who knows them best—for gardening lovers and Francophiles (New York Times) Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief describes its fascinating history and his 40 years of living and working in the gardens. In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France’s kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His memoir captures the essence of the connection between gardeners and the earth they tend, no matter how humble or grand. With the charm of a natural storyteller, Baraton weaves his own path as a gardener with the life of the Versailles grounds, and his role overseeing its team of 80 gardeners tending to 350,000 trees and 30 miles of walkways across 2,100 acres. He richly evokes this legendary place and the history it has witnessed but also its quieter side that he feels privileged to know: The same gardens that hosted the lavish lawn parties of Louis XIV and the momentous meeting between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan remain enchanted—private places where visitors try to get themselves locked in at night, lovers go looking for secluded hideaways, and elegant grandmothers secretly make cuttings to take back to their own gardens. A tremendous bestseller in France, The Gardener of Versailles gives an unprecedentedly intimate view of one of the grandest places on earth.
Author | : Thierry Mariage |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : 9780812234688 |
But as Thierry Mariage makes clear in this detailed and lucid book, the garden style that Le Notre 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.
Author | : Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin |
Publisher | : Editions Hazan, Paris |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : 9780300199390 |
A beautifully illustrated investigation of the life, work, and legacy of the great 17th-century landscape and garden designer Andr� Le N�tre (1613-1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France's greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La D�fense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener's life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le N�tre's output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le N�tre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, Andr� Le N�tre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world's leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields.
Author | : Ian Thompson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1582346313 |
Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre, the gardener.
Author | : Erik Orsenna |
Publisher | : New York : G. Braziller |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The gardensat Versailles, the most extravagant and influential gardens in European history, emerged from the long association of Louis XIV and his master gardener, Andr Le Ntre. Born in Paris, the son and grandson of gardeners, Le Ntre grew up in the
Author | : Jean Chaufourier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Engraving, French |
ISBN | : 9782909838502 |
Commissioned by Louis XIV, Andre le Notre designed a timeless garden of magnificent proportions. Widely admired and imitated throughout Europe, 300 years after its creation the garden at Versailles remains the quintessential jardin a la francaise. The son of a gardener, le Notre studied practical geometry as well as theories of space and perspective, both of which he used to advantage in his rigorous design. Unparalleled in his ability to tame nature, le Notre shaped the existing landscape to fit his uncompromising ideas of symmetry, structure, and beauty. This book is a celebration of le Notre's triumph, beautifully illustrated with previously unpublished plans.
Author | : Elisabeth B. MacDougall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cole Swensen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-04-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780520941564 |
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.
Author | : Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press (TN) |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
André Le Nostre, the son and grandson of royal master gardeners, was the most influential landscape architect of his time. In this definitive study, Professor Hazlehurst shows how his style developed from a complex of influences: his family background, the classic tradition, French rationalism, and the theories of landscape design propounded by Jacques Boyceau and Claude Mollet. He also traces the impact of Père Niceron, Salomon de Caus, and Simon Vouet on Le Nostre's understanding of the principles of perspective and optical foreshortening. By careful analysis of the sites where Le Nostre is known to have worked, among them Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, the Tuileries, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Versailles, Chantilly, Meudon, and Saint-Cloud, Professor Hazlehurst illustrates his skillful use of optical illusion to introduce vitality and surprise into otherwise coldly formal compositions. More than 370 photographs, plans, and elevation drawings, some in color, are included to show how these illusions were created. Garden of Illusion, the first book-length study of André Le Nostre to appear in almost twenty years, provides important new insights into the practice of landscape gardening not only in France but in the Western world. -- Jacket.