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Twenty gardens associated with great artists or notable works are presented in this evocative look at the settings or venues of inspiration that played into the work of Dali, Da Vinci, Monet and many others.
List of contents
THE ARTIST AT HOME AND AT WORK
Leonardo da Vinci
Amboise, France
Peter Paul Rubens
Antwerp, Belgium
Paul Cezanne
Aix-en Provence, France
Pierre August Renoir
Champagne and Le Côte d'Azur, France
Max Liebermann
Lake Wannsee, Germany
Joaquin Sorolla
Madrid, Spain
Henri Le Sidaner
Gerberoy, Picardie, France
Emil Nolde
Seebull, Nordfriesland, Germany
Frida Kahlo
The Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico
Salvador Dali
Portlligat and Púbol, Spain
THE ARTISTS' COMMUNITY
Monet and friends
Argenteuil, Vétheuil and Giverny, France
The Skagen Painters
North Jutland, Denmark
The Kirkcudbright artists 156
Broughton House, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, UK
William Morris and his circle 168
Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire, England, UK
New England Impressionists 182
Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire, USA
German Expressionists 194
Murnau, Bavaria, Germany
The Charleston artists 206
Charleston, Sussex, England, UK
Selected reading 218
Visiting details 218
Index 220
Acknowledgments and picture credits 224
About the author
Jackie Bennett has travelled widely, visiting and writing about gardens. Her books include
Shakespeare’s Gardens,
The Writer’s Garden,
Wild About the Garden and
Island Gardens. She is a former editor of
The Garden Design Journal and
The English Garden.
Summary
Gardens have provided the location, the subjects the pastime and the passion for our greatest artists, from Matisse and Monet to Dali and Da Vinci. This book looks at 20 gardens and more than 30 associated artists and examines the art, the garden-making, and the gardens they immortalised which you can visit today.
