What is a renaissance garden?
Garden historians use the terms ‘renaissance’, ‘mannerist’ and baroque’ freely and often interchangeably, Tim Richardson argues that such art-historical classifications fail to distinguish between the many traditions of garden making in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries traditions that were often strongly regional, and overlapped in time
Garden historians use the terms ‘renaissance’, ‘mannerist’ and baroque’ freely–and often interchangeably, Tim Richardson argues that such art-historical classifications fail to distinguish between the many traditions of garden making in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries–traditions that were often strongly regional, and overlapped in time.(Cover Story)
