[PDF.77mo] A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

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 | #4247727 in Books |  2012-03-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.74 x6.06l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Lost opportunity|By L. Dyer|So much for buying sight unseen without any reviews to guide me. This is a textbook. The only color photo of the gardens in the cover. With such a grand subject, the lack of photos is a disservice to the reader and the grounds. The only visuals are a few small quarter and half page drawings that deplict various stages of the gardens during their| ||"Known the world over, the gardens of Versailles are often visited hurriedly by crowds of tourists. . . . In contrast, this book examines the political and cultural intrigues during the era of the gardens' creation. To achieve his masterpiece, Louis XIV mobil

The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west axis celebrates the Sun King, even as they offer an expression of the scientific spirit of the age in their geometrical layout and exploitation of the optical properties of reflecting water. The original park design, realized by André Le Nôtre, a few advisers, and Louis XIV himself—author of The Way t...

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