A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This publication is a welcome addition to the scholarship on John Evelyn (1620–1706) and his tumultuous times. Evelyn virtually defined the English virtuoso through his self-imposed exile as an early grand tourist, as a founding member of the Royal Society, as an author and translator of numerous books, as a diarist, and as a designer of garden, building and city. The Dumbarton Oaks volume begins to address a relative lacuna in Evelyn scholarship through what may have been his most important writing, albeit an unpublished manuscript: the ‘Elysium Britannicum.’ This work has significance beyond its immediate subject of the English garden — in fact, it has been considered ‘one of the central documents of late European humanism.’1
This publication is a welcome addition to the scholarship on John Evelyn (1620–1706) and his tumultuous times. Evelyn virtually defined the English virtuoso through his self-imposed exile as an early grand tourist, as a founding member of the Royal Society, as an author and translator of numerous books, as a diarist, and as a designer of garden, building and city. The Dumbarton Oaks volume begins to address a relative lacuna in Evelyn scholarship through what may have been his most important writing, albeit an unpublished manuscript: the ‘Elysium Britannicum.’ This work has significance beyond its immediate subject of the English garden — in fact, it has been considered ‘one of the central documents of late European humanism.’1
Review Essay
Emmons, Paul (author)
2000-03-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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