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.

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instanceOf cultural movement in garden design
garden design style
landscape architecture style
aimsTo create idealized nature
evoke pastoral landscapes
characterizedBy borrowed scenery
curving paths
ha-has
informal planting
irregularly placed trees
naturalistic composition
pastoral scenery
serpentine lakes
sweeping lawns
contrastsWith formal axial layouts
symmetrical parterres
countryOfOrigin England
designPrinciple composition in framed views
concealment of boundaries
illusion of untouched nature
subordination of architecture to landscape
developedInCentury 18th century
emergedDuringPeriod Georgian era
hasNotableExample Blenheim Palace grounds
Chatsworth House park
Stourhead
Stowe landscape gardens
surface form: Stowe Landscape Garden
hasNotableProponent Humphry Repton
Lancelot "Capability" Brown
William Kent
influenced Romantic garden design
landscape gardening in Europe
landscape gardening in North America
picturesque movement
influencedBy Claude Lorrain
Enlightenment ideas about nature
Nicolas Poussin
classical ideals of Arcadia
pastoral painting
precededBy Baroque garden style
formal French garden style
typicalFeature artificial lakes
bridges
clumps of trees
follies
garden temples
meandering watercourses
scattered groves
winding drives

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Kirkharle, Northumberland, England notableWork English landscape garden style
subject surface form: Lancelot "Capability" Brown
Petworth House park style English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English Landscape style
Burghley House park associatedWith English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape movement
Pfaueninsel landscapeStyle English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden
Charles Bridgeman influenced English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden movement
Kirkharle Lake and landscape designStyle English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden
Viscount Cobham influenced English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden movement
Rotunda associatedWith English landscape garden style
subject surface form: Rotunda (Stowe)
this entity surface form: English landscape garden movement
Temple of Ancient Virtue hasCulturalContext English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden movement
Picturesque movement relatedTo English landscape garden style
this entity surface form: English landscape garden