Medieval European Gardens and Structures

Ightham Mote

Eisenach, Germany; late middle ages

<p>Medieval monastery town built on an island, with a cloister garden near where monks write books</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>St. Gallen, Switzerland</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It houses medieval art and features cloisters from the 12th to 15th centuries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Solovetsky Islands, Russia; surviving examples of classical labyrinths dating back to the Neolithic age</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medieval turf labyrinth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bartolomeo</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was the first villa to be built according to principles laid out in a treatise on architecture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It links Hadrian's Villa to the Pope's retreat with inspiration from ancient Roman sanctuaries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hidden distortion and dynamic forms characteristic of Baroque design</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mannerist villa design, allegory used in the garden (Hercules and Moses), fountain art and hydraulic engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dramatic landscape in a place without elevation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mannerist landscape with allegory (four ages of man) and water telling a story</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vasari, Ammannati, Buontalenti</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Redesign of the entire city of Rome, including new architecture, straight avenues, and public fountains</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High Renaissance features in a French chateau, such as tapis verts, bosquets, allées, and an aesthetic moat</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Renaissance big court of honor, tapis verts and water mirror, harmonic proportion and symmetry</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A combination of High Renaissance and Baroque design features</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High Renaissance design with allegory linking the mistress to Roman goddess Diana</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A large palace and garden complex used by Catherine de Medici for entertainment in the garden courts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Baroque elements, including hide and reveal techniques to create optical illusions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The largest French Baroque garden, created for Louis XIV, and incorporates hide and reveal techniques</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of mathematics to create optical illusions and hide and reveal techniques</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A classical Chinese garden from the Song Dynasty, considered the oldest surviving example</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A classical Chinese garden restored in the 20th century</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The largest classical Chinese garden, built during the Ming Dynasty</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Buddhist temple, originally an aristocrat villa, with traditional Japanese architecture and a hill and pond garden</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A temple designed around a pond with rocks and hills representing islands and mountains, inspired by Buddhist teachings of paradise</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Zen Buddhist monastery with a dry landscape garden</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Zen Buddhist monastery that features dry landscape gardens and abbots' quarters facing gardens with different meanings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A famous example of a strolling garden, featuring a large villa with tea pavilions and gardens around an artificial pond</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An Edo Period imperial villa that features three separate villas designed around an artificial pond, showcasing the concept of borrowed scenery</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organic town plan based on rural medieval English villages</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Utopian ideals in colonial town planning, public green spaces, avenues designed to give good sunlight, and fire prevention</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Baroque design principles applied to colonial town planning, with radial avenues extending from circles marking important buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Baroque landscape design, long avenues linking important buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alexander Spotswood; court of honor, garden with topiary, tapis vert, and maze</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Utopian ideals, public green spaces, equitable land distribution, and public gardens for agricultural experimentation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neoclassical main house, boxwood garden with platonic forms and golden sections, sugarcane fields, and 22 slave cabins</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Temple, Bridgeman, Kent, Capability Brown</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Designed by the estate owner rather than a professional designer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A landscape designed by Capability Brown that reflects a formulaic approach used by aristocrats during the time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A destination designed for tourists who wanted picturesque scenery, including an artificial ruined castle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A landscape designed by George Washington, incorporating English landscape garden elements into an American plantation landscape</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A landscape designed by Thomas Jefferson showcasing neoclassical architecture, inspired by Palladio's Villa Rotunda, and gardens for horticultural experiments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An academic village designed by Thomas Jefferson, reflecting his vision of a university as a community of learning and knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers