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Garden at Monceau /

Originally published in 1779, 'Garden at Monceau' is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans, duc de Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intende...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carmontelle, 1717-1806 (Author)
Other Authors: Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow, 1936- (Editor), Disponzio, Joseph (Editor, Contributor), Chatel de Brancion, Laurence (Contributor), Gétreau, Florence (Contributor), Hays, David Lyle (Contributor), Hyde, Elizabeth (Contributor), Taylor-Leduc, Susan (Contributor), Weber, Caroline, 1969- (Contributor), Wick, Gabriel (Contributor), Ayers, Andrew (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Upperville, VA : Foundation for Landscape Studies ; Oak Spring Garden Foundation, [2020]
Subjects:
Carmontelle, > 1717-1806.
Parc Monceau (Paris, France) > History.
Parc Monceau (Paris, France) > Pictorial works.
Gardens > France > Paris > History.
Gardens.
France > Paris.
France > Paris > Parc Monceau.
History.
Pictorial works.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and Peter Crane
  • Introduction / Joseph Disponzio
  • Translator's foreword / Andrew Ayers
  • Prospectus for the Garden at Monceau / Carmontelle
  • Garden at Monceau / Carmontelle
  • Carmontelle and his world / Laurence Chatel de Brancion
  • Essays
  • History by design : the aesthetics of transformation in Carmontelle's Jardin de Monceau / David L. Hays
  • Fashion follies at the folie de Chartres / Caroline Weber
  • Carmontelle's portraits of musicians / Florence Gétreau
  • "The habit of seeing the same things often" : planting the picturesque in eighteenth-century France / Elizabeth Hyde
  • Monceau, the Mémoires secrets, and the Colisée : the reinvention of the duc de Chartres à l'anglois / Gabriel Wick
  • A spade in the garden or a garden in spades : Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle's Jardin de Monceau or the garden as dramatic proverb / Joseph Disponzio
  • En-jeux : viewing, mapping, and playing in Carmontelle's prospectus and Jardin de Monceau / Susan Taylor-Leduc
  • Notes.