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Informationen zum Autor Anna Keay is the Curatorial Director for English Heritage. From 1996 to 2002 Anna worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces, which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace and the Banqueting House in Whitehall. Since 2002 she has been Properties Presentation Director of English Heritage, responsible for curating and presenting to the public 420 historic sites across England, from Stonehenge to Kenwood House. John Watkins has been Head of Gardens and Landscape at English Heritage since 1999, providing policy advice and technical guidance on the maintenance and management of designed landscapes and historic parks and gardens. Klappentext The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. This beautifully illustrated book presents the extensive research that went into English Heritage's ambitious re-creation of the garden in 2009 and describes the process by which the new garden was designed. Zusammenfassung The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. This beautifully illustrated book presents the extensive research that informed the scheme and describes the process by which the new garden was designed. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE GARDEN IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. The earl of Leicester and his world 2. The place of Kenilworth in garden history 3. The architectural setting of the earl of Leicester's garden 4. The north court prior to Leicester's works 5. The north court after the Earl of Leicester 6. Princely pleasures: the cultural patronage of the Earl of Leicester THE SOURCES 7. The Langham Letter as a source for garden history 8. The archaeology of the garden 9. Visual sources for Elizabethan garden REALISING THE RE-CREATION 10. The philosophy of the reconstruction 11. The form and structure of the garden 12. The 'Very Fair Fountain' 13. Designing and creating the fountain 14. The Aviary 15. Birds for the Kenilworth aviary 16. The Elizabethan Flower Garden 17. Patterns of Planting ...
