The landscape garden and neoclassicism

• Autores: A.A. Tait
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 3, Nº 4, 1983, págs. 317-332
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Neoclassicism is an art-historical label which in landscape terms covers the period of the picturesque - that is roughly 1770 to 1830. Within it and at the 19th-century end of the movement there appears the architectural phenomenon or aberration (as you will) of the Greek revival. It presented the landscape gardener with enormous problems and ones which I think he never really faced honestly. The sheer formality of the Greek temple with its ruthless emphasis on scholarly and archaeological precision placed it diametrically opposite the Gothic castle of the picturesque. Less accommodating than its Roman descendants, caught in the reformist mood for exactitude and truth, and catching the dangerous fever of revivalism, it was an impossible bedfellow in the picturesque boudoir. What landscape could serve the sharp, pristine and pure form of the Parthenon revived or the Temple of Theseus reborn?