Tuesday, January 6, 2009

SS 2009 Course: The Renaissance Garden

Course 121
Date: 19–23 January
Full Price: R270,00 Staff: R135,00 Reduced: R70,00
Time: 11.15 am

The Renaissance Garden
Presented by Dr Paula Henderson, independent architectural historian, lecturer at Courtauld Institute of Art Summer School

The idea of the garden in the Renaissance was remarkably complex. Used as a metaphor and symbol in literature and the visual arts, the garden itself developed into one of the most ambitious and exciting of all art forms. From the 15th century, the artists, architects and philosophers responsible for the design of gardens sought to surpass the achievements of the ancients, who had been their initial inspiration. Gardens, now more expansive and dramatic in their situation, became repositories of fine sculpture, sometimes organised into propagandistic or literary iconographic programmes.

This course will consider the development of Italian, French, Northern European and English Renaissance gardens and show how landscape can be considered one of the great Renaissance art forms.

LECTURE TITLES
  1. The ancient Roman garden in the Renaissance mind.
  2. The garden as symbol.
  3. The Renaissance garden in Italy.
  4. The Renaissance garden in France, Holland, Spain and England.
  5. The legacy of the Renaissance garden.
Recommended readings:
  • Henderson, P. The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Hobhouse, P. The Story of Gardening. DK Publishing, 2002; or Plants in Garden History. Anova Books, 2004.

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