Aesthetic history background

An original, splendidly illustrated history of gardens as seen through the eyes of painters by the highly acclaimed author of Landscape Painting: A History.

The creation of gardens was among the first achievements of early civilizations, and garden design was already highly developed in antiquity.

Pictures of gardens are a reflection of the social, historical, and aesthetic context in which gardens were conceived.

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The focus of this captivating book is not the gardens themselves or the different concepts of the garden, but rather the representation of gardens in paintings. The author examines why artists paint gardens by covering the varied and lively 2,year history of the garden picture using garden masterpieces as examples.

The text begins with a look at ancient Rome, when paintings of gardens, as found in villas in Pompeii, were already valued as works of art.

The wide-ranging coverage also includes pictures of charming medieval gardens in bo