The English Landscape Garden
- Robert Clark (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
- Caroline Holmes (Institue of Continuing Education, Cambridge University)
Beginnings
Probably the most influential garden from European antiquity surrounded the villa built for the emperor Hadrian at Tivoli near Rome. Remnants of this garden have survived to this day and were to have considerable influence during the Renaissance, but the garden as a whole covered approximately 7 square miles (18 square kilometres), and included theatres, baths, libraries, sculpture gardens and pavilions of an enormous extent. It was in fragments rather than in its entirety that Tivoli was to prove influential.
Most of the other early gardens we know of in Greece (5th century BCE), in Roman villas, in the Islamic
First published 04 November 2004
Citation: Clark, Robert, Caroline Holmes. "The English Landscape Garden". The Literary Encyclopedia. 04 November 2004
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