Gardens of earthly delight: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish gardens

• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 8, Nº 1, 1988, págs. 61-62
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  • The use of gardens as settings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish art was the subject of an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, of which this publication is the fully illustrated and explanatory catalogue. It comprises four sections: images of the seasons,months, ages and temperaments of man, all of which found their apt symbolic site within a garden; mythological figures such as Vertumnus and Pomona, whose stories are set in gardens; moralizing episodes that use gardens to highlight man's wickedness; outdoor parties (buitenpartijen) in gardens, which Dr Hellerstedt claims is a "significant new artistic genre created in the Netherlands in the first decades of the seventeenth century". Each section is prefaced with a short essay, and each item is accompanied by a detailed descriptive and analytical entry.