The Baroque Landscape: Andre Le Notre & Vaux-le-Vicomte
基本信息·出版社：Rizzoli International Publications ·页码：192 页 ·出版日期：2004年07月 ·ISBN：0847826066 ·条形码：9780847826063 ·装帧：精 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Rizzoli International Publications
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2004年07月
·ISBN：0847826066
·条形码：9780847826063
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) was the greatest landscape architect in France, and his work for Louis XIV (the Sun King) laid the groundwork for the baroque style in landscaping. He also defined the essence of French landscape design -scientific, rationalist-in counterpoint to the more romantic, naturalistic English tradition and based his work on the then state-of-the-art science of optics and perspective.
The castle and gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte (approximately 50 km south of Paris) were begun in 1653. They are the first great landscape designed by André Le Nôtre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in gardening. Many of the principles Le Nôtre tried and tested at Vaux were later employed to great acclaim at Versailles, which he designed at the height of his career.
Vaux-le-Vicomte is among the most popular French public gardens visited by tourists, roughly 50 percent of whom are from English-speaking countries.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Before Louis XIV earned his name as the Sun King who unified France and heralded the kingdom’s Grand Siecle of art and architecture, his finance minister Nicolas Fouquet hired the rising designer Andre Le Notre to transform the gardens of his chateau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, 50km south of Paris. Le Notre’s resulting masterpiece of sweeping, illusory vistas and geometrically harmonious lawn and embroidered parterres (closely cropped shrubs carved into fine, symmetric scrolls) immediately gained the designer notoriety and made Fouquet’s home the most modern and fashionable of the 17th century. (Vaux-le-Vicomte greatly surpassed Versailles in opulence, and later became a model for transforming the king’s "humble" hunting lodge into a sprawling park and palace.) Full of details, history and lore, if rather haltingly strung together, art historian Brix’s account of the Le Notre’s achievement will delight lovers of this grand style. 150 color photographs.
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