LA 3710 - Plans and Paintings

Italian Coastal Landscape - Claude Lorrain, 1642

Sunset At Tivoli - Claude Lorrain, 1644

| Rousham - William Kent, 1730's

| Stourhead - Henry Hoare, 1735-83 Plan

| Stourhead - Henry Hoare, 1735-85 Picture

| Stowe - Charles Bridgeman, 1720 Plan

| Stowe - Kent and Brown, 1748 Plan

| Blenheim - Capability Brown, 1764-74

Robert Andrews and His Wife - Thomas Gainsborough, 1748

Idea of "old money" vs. "new money."

| Brandsbury - Humphrey Repton, 1789

The Herdsman, Anonymous artist

Represents idea that "Nature is a source of virtue" (Rousseau).

Ruins Paintings - Robert des (of the) Ruins, 1733-1808

The Waterfalls of Tivoli - Jean Honore Fragonard, 1732-1806

The Swing - Jean Honore Fragonard, 1732-1806

| The Petit Trianon - Richard Micque for Marie Antoinette, 1780

| Jardin De Monceau - Carmontelle, 1773-78

| Kew Gardens - Sir William Chambers, 1763

Chinese/Anglo garden

| Ermenonville - Marquis de Girardin, 1766-80

| Le Desert de Retz - Francois de Monville, 1774-81

| Englischer Garten - Fredrick Ludwig von Sckel, 1789

| Muskau - Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau, 1811

| Tiergarten - Peter Josef Lenne and Karl Friedrich Schinke (Plan by Lenne), 1840

| Marylebone (Regent's) Park - John Nash, 1811

Links idea of landscape with urban living.

Early Planting Plan - John Claudius Loudon

| Derby Arboretum - John Claudius Loudon, 1839

| Birkenhead Park - Joseph Paxton, 1844

Notable for transverse drive.

· Mount Vernon - George Washington, 1755-1778

· Washington D.C. Overview, Original "Flawed Vision"

· New York City Overview, Original "Flawed Vision," "Worst city plan ever invented," - FLO

The Oxbow - Thomas Cole (Connecticut River), 1836

Progress- Asher B. Durand, 1853

Kaaterskill Falls - Thomas Cole, 1825

Niagara Falls- Frederick E. Church, 1857

· Mount Auburn Cemetery - Henry Dearborn, 1831

· Highland House - Calvert Vaux and A.J. Downing, 1850's

| Porchester Terrace - John Claudius Loudon, 1820's

· The Mall, D.C. - A.J. Downing, 1851

· Central Park "The Greensward Plan" - Frederick Law Olmsted, 1858

· Site of Seneca Falls, African-American settlement removed to create Central Park

· Prospect Park - Frederick Law Olmsted, 1865

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Who said nature=good society=corrupt?

Smooth, regular, harmonious

What is beautiful?

"natural", irregular: located somewhere between the beautiful and the sublime

What is picturesque?

rough, cragged, gloomy, violent

What is sublime?

Ferme ornee

ornamental farm; often miniaturized

Edmund Burke

Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful?

William Gilpin

Origins of our Ideas of the picturesque?

Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price

These two marshall the "Great Picturesque Debate" and want to wreck Humphry Repton

Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederick Church

Artists in Hudson River School

Henry Hoare

Who designed Stourhead?

a narrative with a meaning associated with it

An allegory is...?

True

T/F Kent was a painter before he became a landscape gardener.

painting, poetry, gardening

What are the three graces?

making landscapes that were useful to people

Repton diverged from his predecessor Brown by...?