English landscape garden style
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The English landscape garden style is an 18th-century approach to garden design that emphasizes naturalistic, sweeping lawns, serpentine lakes, and irregularly placed trees to create idealized pastoral scenery.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| English landscape garden movement | 4 |
| English landscape garden | 3 |
| English Landscape style | 1 |
| English landscape garden style canonical | 1 |
| English landscape movement | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural movement in garden design
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garden design style ⓘ landscape architecture style ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
create idealized nature
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evoke pastoral landscapes ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
borrowed scenery
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curving paths ⓘ ha-has ⓘ informal planting ⓘ irregularly placed trees ⓘ naturalistic composition ⓘ pastoral scenery ⓘ serpentine lakes ⓘ sweeping lawns ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
formal axial layouts
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symmetrical parterres ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| designPrinciple |
composition in framed views
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concealment of boundaries ⓘ illusion of untouched nature ⓘ subordination of architecture to landscape ⓘ |
| developedInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| emergedDuringPeriod | Georgian era ⓘ |
| hasNotableExample |
Blenheim Palace grounds
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Chatsworth House park ⓘ Stourhead ⓘ Stowe landscape gardens ⓘ
surface form:
Stowe Landscape Garden
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| hasNotableProponent |
Humphry Repton
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Lancelot "Capability" Brown ⓘ William Kent ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romantic garden design
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landscape gardening in Europe ⓘ landscape gardening in North America ⓘ picturesque movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Claude Lorrain
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Enlightenment ideas about nature ⓘ Nicolas Poussin ⓘ classical ideals of Arcadia ⓘ pastoral painting ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Baroque garden style
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formal French garden style ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
artificial lakes
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bridges ⓘ clumps of trees ⓘ follies ⓘ garden temples ⓘ meandering watercourses ⓘ scattered groves ⓘ winding drives ⓘ |
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lancelot "Capability" Brown
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English Landscape style
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English landscape movement
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English landscape garden
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English landscape garden movement
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English landscape garden
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English landscape garden movement
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Rotunda (Stowe)
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English landscape garden movement
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English landscape garden movement
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English landscape garden