{"id":7727,"date":"2011-11-08T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2011-11-08T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T07:09:10","slug":"garden-design-and-the-history-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/garden-design-and-the-history-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden design and the history of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_7728\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"styles_sculpture_garden_design-a\" width=\"775\" height=\"777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/styles_sculpture_garden_design-a-624x626.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Developments in gardens parallel developments in the fine arts<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe top pictures show a medieval statue, Michaelangelo&#8217;s David and Bernini&#8217;s David.<br \/>\nThe lower pictures show a medieval garden, a renaissance garden and a baroque garden.<br \/>\nThe pairs represent the devotional attitude of the middle ages, the static calm of the renaissance the drama of the baroque.<br \/>\nI think there are closer parallels between the histories of gardens and fine art than between the histories of gardens and dynasties, which makes me doubtful about the categorisation of British gardens as Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian etc.  Nor do I think kings and queens have had a leading role in the development of garden design. So why are royal names so popular in Britain? Are garden historians flunkies? And how do the Irish manage without royal names for garden styles?<div id=\"attachment_7732\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garden_design_history_flunky\" width=\"775\" height=\"421\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/garden_design_history_flunky-624x339.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are garden historians flunkies?<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top pictures show a medieval statue, Michaelangelo&#8217;s David and Bernini&#8217;s David. The lower pictures show a medieval garden, a renaissance garden and a baroque garden. The pairs represent the devotional attitude of the middle ages, the static calm of the renaissance the drama of the baroque. I think there are closer parallels between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727"}],"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=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}