On reserve in the ZSR library:

F. Hamilton Hazlehurst. Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre le Nostre, Nashville, 1980.

John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis, eds. The Genius of the Place, Cambridge, MA 1988.

Claudia Lazzaro. The Italian Renaissance Garden, New Haven, 1990.

Christopher Thacker. The History of Gardens, California, 1979.

Peter Walker and Melanie Simo. Invisible Gardens; The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, Cambridge, MA 1994.

Date

Topic

Reading

 

Sep1	Introduction to garden history and bibliography
Sep 6	Pre-Renaissance Gardens	Handouts: text of Pliny's letters
Sep 8	Renaissance Italy	Thacker: Chapter 6
Sep 13	Renaissance Italy
Sep 15	Villa Madama and Villa Guilia
Sep 20	Villa Lante	Lazzaro, Chapter 10
Sep 22	North Italy
Sep 27	The Villa d'Este at Tivoli	Lazzaro, Chapter 9
Sep 29	Pratolino
Oct 4	Bomarzo
Oct 6	Frascati and villegiatura
Oct 11	Le Notre, Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles	Thacker, Chapter 10 and Hazlehurst, Chapter 2
Oct 13	Versailles
Oct 18	French Gardens	Thacker, Chapter 9
Oct 20	Mid-term exam

 

Oct 25	Asian Gardens	Thacker, Chapters 3 and 4
Oct 27	Asian Gardens
Nov 1	German Gardens
Nov 3	Naturalizing trends in England	Thacker, Chapter 12
Nov8	Stowe	Hunt and Willia, 215-227
Nov 10	Lancelot "Capablity" Brown	Thacker, Chapter 14
Nov 15	Humphrey Repton, the "Painterly" and "Picturesque"	Hunt and Willis, 358-367
Nov 17	The Gardenesque	Thacker, Chapter 15
Nov 22	Public Parks	Walker and Simo, 2-29
Nov 29	Roberto Burle-Marx	Walker and Simo, 56-91
Dec 1	Modernist Gardens	Walker and Simo, 92-115
Dec 6	Contemporary Garden trends
Dec 8	Contemporary Garden trends

 

Final exam

Tuesday, December 13, 9 AM

Fine Arts 102

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