Author: STRONG, ROY C. ; NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (LONDON, ENGLAND)
Title: The artist and the garden / Roy Strong
Description: New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press 2000. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Spine of dw sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 288 pages; 288p. : ill. (some col.). facsims. figs. maps. plans. ports. ; 30 cm. Summary: This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century. many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong. widely recognized for his expertise in both art history and garden history. surveys garden pictures ranging from Elizabethan miniatures to eighteenth-century alfresco conversation pieces. from suites of paintings of a single garden to amateur watercolors. He inquires into the origin of the English garden picture genre. its development prior to the invention of photography. its greatest exponents. its reliability as historical evidence of actual gardens. and its place within the larger European tradition of picturing the garden. With some 350 fully annotated illustrations. this lovely book offers a unique record of three hundred years of English gardens and what they meant to those who owned and portrayed them. Subjects: Gardens -- Garden history -- Garden design -- Art.ISBN: 0300085206. Weight in Kg appr.:

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