| Date | Topic | Reading |
| Aug 26 | Introduction to garden history and bibliography | |
| Aug 28 |
Antiquity: Pliny's Villas and Hadrian's Villa | Handouts: text of Pliny's letters |
| Aug 31 |
The Middle Ages |
Thacker: Chapter 5 |
| Sep 2 |
Early Renaissance Literature and
Gardens |
Thacker: Chapter 6 |
| Sep 4 |
Gardens in Renaissance Rome: Belvedere | Lazzaro: 8-19 |
| Sep 7 |
Gardens in Renaissance Rome: Villa Madama | |
| Sep 9 |
Gardens in Renaissance Rome: Villa Guilia | |
| Sep 11 |
The Villa d'Este at Tivoli | Lazzaro, 215-242 |
| Sep 14 |
Villa Lante |
Lazzaro, 243-269 |
| Sep 16 | Sixteenth-century Tuscan Gardens | Lazzaro, pp. 191-214 |
| Sep 18 |
Bomarzo |
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| Sep 21 |
"villegiatura" | |
| Sep 23 | Frascati | Look up "Frascati" on line |
| Sep 25 |
Caserta |
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| Sep 28 | Northern European Gardens in the 16th Century | Thacker: Chapter 8 |
| Sep 30 |
Andre le Nostre and Vaux-le-Vicomte | Hazlehurst, pp. 17-43 |
| Oct 2 |
Versailles I | Browse through the Pincas book |
| Oct 5 |
Versailles II |
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| Oct 7 |
Marly | Thacker: Chapter 9 |
| Oct 9 |
Mid-term Exam |
| Oct 12 |
The French Garden | Hazlehurst, pp. 352-359 |
| Oct 14 | The "French Garden" in Europe | Thacker: Chapter 11 |
| Oct 19 |
German Gardens | |
| Oct 21 |
Naturalizing trends in 18th-century England | Hunt and Willis, pp. 204-214 |
| Oct 23 |
Rousham |
Thacker: Chapter 12 |
| Oct 26 | Stowe | Hunt and Willis: 215-227 |
| Oct 28 |
Lancelot "Capability" Brown | Thacker: Chapter 14 |
| Oct 30 |
Humphrey Repton |
Hunt and Willis: 358-367 |
| Nov 2 |
The "Painterly" Garden | Hunt and Willis: 243-246, 289-297 |
| Nov 4 |
The "Picturesque" Garden | Hunt and Willis: 342-357 |
| Nov 6 |
The "English Garden" in Europe | Thacker: Chapter 15 |
| Nov 9 |
The "English Garden" in America |
Walker and Simo: 2-29 |
| Nov 11 |
Chinese Gardens | Thacker: Chapter 3 |
| Nov 13 |
China and Japan |
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| Nov 16 | Japanese Gardens | Thacker: Chapter 4 |
| Nov 18 |
Public Parks |
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| Nov 20 |
The "Gardenesque" | Hunt and Willis: 358-367 |
| Nov 23 |
Modernist Gardens | Thacker: Chapter 16 |
| Nov 30 |
Roberto Burle-Marx |
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| Dec 2 |
Contemporary Gardens |
Walker and Simo: 56-91 |
| Dec 4 |
Contemporary Gardens |
| Final exam | Saturday, December 12, 2-5 PM |
Fine Arts 102 |
For selected bibliography for this course, click here.
For hints to help you think about landscaped sites, click
here.