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The Princesse de Monaco, Hubert Robert and the invention of the 'Vieux château' of Betz
In the increasingly patriotic and nationalistic ideological climate of the 1780s, in France, as in Britain and the German states, the focus of practices of picturesque tourism and antiquarianism shifted towards the homeland. Travel for pleasure and the visiting of ancient and picturesque sights became accessible to a far broader public and assumed a more localized character. The design and content of aristocratic gardens, which had previously constituted the principal destinations of leisure travel, evolved to meet the changing tastes of this travelling public. In place of the exotic, fantastic and theatrical experiences that had prevailed in some of the most celebrated and innovative aristocratic gardens of the 1770s and early 1780s, this new culture of domestic tourism and antiquarianism engendered an appreciation of seemingly unmediated, accidental and authentic picturesque experiences. This new genre of garden sought to recreate within the confines of the garden the experience of wandering in a wilderness, and present visitors with a sequence of ruins and monuments that would have appeared to have been in place for centuries.
The Princesse de Monaco, Hubert Robert and the invention of the 'Vieux château' of Betz
In the increasingly patriotic and nationalistic ideological climate of the 1780s, in France, as in Britain and the German states, the focus of practices of picturesque tourism and antiquarianism shifted towards the homeland. Travel for pleasure and the visiting of ancient and picturesque sights became accessible to a far broader public and assumed a more localized character. The design and content of aristocratic gardens, which had previously constituted the principal destinations of leisure travel, evolved to meet the changing tastes of this travelling public. In place of the exotic, fantastic and theatrical experiences that had prevailed in some of the most celebrated and innovative aristocratic gardens of the 1770s and early 1780s, this new culture of domestic tourism and antiquarianism engendered an appreciation of seemingly unmediated, accidental and authentic picturesque experiences. This new genre of garden sought to recreate within the confines of the garden the experience of wandering in a wilderness, and present visitors with a sequence of ruins and monuments that would have appeared to have been in place for centuries.
The Princesse de Monaco, Hubert Robert and the invention of the 'Vieux château' of Betz
Wick, Gabriel (author)
2017
Article (Journal)
English
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