English landscape movement
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The English landscape movement was an 18th-century revolution in garden and park design that created naturalistic, picturesque landscapes with sweeping lawns, serpentine lakes, and artfully arranged trees, influencing estates across Britain and Europe.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| English garden movement | 1 |
| English landscape garden movement | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural movement
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garden design movement ⓘ landscape architecture style ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| emergedAsReactionTo |
formal French Baroque gardens
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geometric Renaissance garden layouts ⓘ |
| field |
garden design
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landscape architecture ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Britain
NERFINISHED
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continental Europe ⓘ later influence in North America ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
artfully arranged trees
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concealed boundaries ⓘ curving paths and drives ⓘ informal planting ⓘ integration of house and park ⓘ long, framed vistas ⓘ naturalistic composition ⓘ pastoral scenery ⓘ picturesque aesthetics ⓘ scenic composition inspired by landscape painting ⓘ serpentine lakes ⓘ sweeping lawns ⓘ use of ha-has ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century public parks
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American landscape design ⓘ European estate design ⓘ Romantic attitudes to landscape ⓘ landscape architecture as a profession ⓘ picturesque movement in Europe ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment ideas about nature
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classical ideals of nature ⓘ earlier formal gardens it reacted against ⓘ pastoral landscape painting ⓘ picturesque theory ⓘ |
| partOf | British landscape tradition ⓘ |
| typicalElement |
belt planting around the perimeter
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bridges as focal points ⓘ clumps of trees in open grassland ⓘ concealed service areas and farm buildings ⓘ islands in lakes ⓘ meandering watercourses ⓘ strategically placed follies ⓘ winding approach drives revealing staged views ⓘ |
| usedDesignDevice |
borrowed scenery beyond the estate
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careful control of sightlines ⓘ contrast between open and wooded areas ⓘ ha-ha to create invisible boundaries ⓘ subtle landform modelling ⓘ |
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English garden movement