Michel Remy, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nice, specialist literature and art modern and British contemporaries.

Conference of Art and history

THE BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN

Of the first fruits at the peak of stowe garden

By Michel Remy

Michel Remy, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nice, specialist literature and art modern and British contemporaries.

What makes the originality of an English garden? How was it born? On behalf of what values?
The birth of the English garden is a real transformation of the ideal image of nature, in particular through a postage of geometric lines and symmetry. It will be to examine the context in order to understand the emergence of a new sense of nature that wins all over Europe. We will then look at the concrete example of one of the most famous English gardens, of Stow, which constitutes a real Treaty of aesthetics with a political satire dubbed a moral Treaty.

Duration 2 hours

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