The Sun King's Garden
Louis XIV, Andre Le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles
(Sprache: Englisch)
A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive gardens the world has ever known - the gardens of Versailles
A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive...
A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive...
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A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive gardens the world has ever known - the gardens of Versailles
A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive gardens the world has ever known - the gardens of Versailles
A beautiful gift book and an engrossing story of the creation of the most dazzling and extensive gardens the world has ever known - the gardens of Versailles
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War-monger, womanizer and autocrat, Louis XIV, Frances's self-styled 'Sun-King', was also history's most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, twelve miles outside Paris he created not only Europe's most lavish palace but the most extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen. The Domaine Nationale de Versailles now covers 2,100 acres (about two and a half times the size of New York's Central Park) but in it's heyday under Louis, the grand parc covered an astounding 16,343 acres.Assisting Louis in all this was a lowly-born gardener, Andre Le Notre, whose character and temperament were as different from those of his sovereign as it is possible to conceive. Where Louis was ruthless and relentlessly driven, celebrating his military and amorous conquests with ever more lavish plans for his gardens, Le Notre was down to earth, witty and amiable.- and phenomenally talented. While Louis could strike fear into the highest in the land with just a look, Le Notre enjoyed the king's trustand friendship for more than 40 years.
In this lavishly illustrated book, Ian Thompson tells more comprehensively then ever before the intertwined stories of an extraordinary garden and an extraordinary friendship.
Autoren-Porträt von Ian Thompson
Thompson, IanIan Thompson studied Philosophy at the University of Newcastle (1974-77), and later completed a B. Phil and Ph. D. in Landscape Architecture. After qualifying as a landscape architect he worked in practice first in Glasgow and then on Tyneside. Between 1986 and 1992 he was a Senior Landscape Architect in the Planning Department of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. He currently teaches postgraduate Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University. He is the author of the Sun King's Garden. Ian Thompson was born and bred in Barrow-in-Furness and now lives in Gosport with his wife and child.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian Thompson
- 2006, 384 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747576483
- ISBN-13: 9780747576488
Sprache:
Englisch
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