{"id":10955,"date":"2017-10-11T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:02:05","slug":"stourhead-is-a-great-english-landscape-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/stourhead-is-a-great-english-landscape-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Stourhead is a great English landscape garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYUCUZ9YCdE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/stourhead_garden\">Stourhead Landscape Garden<\/a> has a good claim to being &#8216;England&#8217;s greatest landscape garden&#8217;. Though changed, as all gardens must change, it retains much of its eighteenth century character. Tour operators are right to make it a priority in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_tours\/in\/england\">English garden tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Hoare&#8217;s aim was to recreate the landscape of antiquity. Not having too clear an idea of what it looked like, he turned to the great\u00a0 landscape painters of Italy, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/biography\/claude_lorrain\">Claude Lorrain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/biography\/nicholas_poussin\">Nicholas Poussin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Great Gardens postcard, below and at the start of the video, the plan of Stourhead is on the left and the garden design style diagram it represents is on the right. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/historic_design_styles\">Gardenvisit.com style chart<\/a> shows this style in its historic position. Stourhead owes much to Augustan ideas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10957\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden.jpg\" alt=\"Great English Garden postcard of Stourhead, showing the garden plan and the garden design style\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/stourhead_gardenvisit.com_great_english_garden-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great English Garden postcard of Stourhead, showing the garden plan and the garden design style<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stourhead Landscape Garden has a good claim to being &#8216;England&#8217;s greatest landscape garden&#8217;. Though changed, as all gardens must change, it retains much of its eighteenth century character. Tour operators are right to make it a priority in English garden tours. Henry Hoare&#8217;s aim was to recreate the landscape of antiquity. Not having too clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,12,242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}