The 17th Century Garden E-Book

Annerose Baumann

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig, course: Proseminar "Gardening in English Literature and Culture", language: English, abstract: This essay draws a brief sketch of the three main styles that influenced English gardeners in the course of the 17th century, the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism, the French Baroque and the Dutch style, describing their features, how they came to England and in which way they were applied there. Furthermore the question of how garden design was influenced by political circumstances shall be discussed briefly.