The Baroque landscape : André Le Nôtre & Vaux le Vicomte / Michael Brix ; translated by Steven Lindberg
2004, First Edition. New York : Rizzoli. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445235
ISBN: 0847826066
Physical description: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, maps ; 26 cm. Contents: Nicolas Fouquet : a pioneer of the Grand Siècle -- The original garden and its redesign in a more elaborate style -- André Le Nôtre : famous but unknown -- Prelude to the great perspectives -- Nature civilized -- The magic of optical illusion -- Hiding and revealing : an interplay -- In the realm of the river gods -- The labor of Hercules -- Nicolas Fouquet : a victim of the Grand Siècle -- Documentation -- Chronology : new information from the evaluation of contemporary sources -- The plans from the eighteenth century -- Restorations and alterations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Subjects: Le Nôtre, André 1613-1700. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy, France). Landscape architecture France Maincy. Landscape design France History 17th century.
Price: €60.00