Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden

Samson, Alexander (editor) / Henderson, Paula (author)

Locus Amoenus ; 42-69

Renaissance Studies Special Issue Book Series

2012-02-10

28 pages

9781118232781 , 9781444361513

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118232781.ch2

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

royal palaces of circa 1560, and the south front of Wilton House , medieval gardens, illuminations of royal gardens , Tudor and early Stuart gardens , Tudor and early Stuart architecture, art into purer, classical forms , Earl of Pembroke's gardens at Wilton House , medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden, clinging to the past , free‐standing sculpture, not associated with medieval gardens , Wollaton Hall (Nottinghamshire), the Italianate plan and ornate , garden at Wollaton, a paradigm of eclecticism , ‘Rosamund's Bower’ at Everswell, by Henry II for clandestine meetings