- Title :
-
Venus in the eighteenth-century English garden
- Author :
- COFFIN, David R. ;
- Publication year :
-
2000
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Traces the changing meaning of the figure of Venus in the 18th-c. English garden. Discusses examples at the temples of Venus at Stowe and West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire; Rousham in Oxfordshire; and William Shenstone's The Leasowes in Salop. Identifies as the principal change during the 17th and 18th cs. a shift from an emphasis on the allegorical and general to the specific and individual and relates it to changes in the nature of England's government during this period. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 12 ill. ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Gouvernement ; Grande-Bretagne ; Halesowen (GBR), Leasowes ; Iconographie ; Jardin ; Ornement de jardin ; Rousham (GBR), Rousham House ; Sculpture ; Shenstone, William, 1714-1763 ; Stowe (Bucks, GBR), Temple of Venus ; Vénus ; West Wycombe (GBR), West Wycombe Park, Temple of Venus ; 1700-1800 ;
- Descriptors :
- Garden ornaments ; Gardens ; Government ; Great Britain ; Halesowen (GBR), Leasowes ; Iconography ; Rousham (GBR), Rousham House ; Sculpture ; Shenstone, William, 1714-1763 ; Stowe (Bucks, GBR), Temple of Venus ; Venus ; West Wycombe (GBR), West Wycombe Park, Temple of Venus ; 1700-1800 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
-
Garden history, 2000, 28, 2, winter
- INIST identifier :
- 24876488 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 0307-1243 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Garden History Society, Reading
- Publisher country :
- UNITED KINGDOM ;
