Garden At Monceau

Originally published in 1779, 'Garden at Monceau' is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orlâeans, duc de Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intended to surprise and amaze the visitor, the garden was a setting for ancien râegime social life. Carmontelle's portrayal of his work in 'Garden at Monceau' therefore serves as an expression of a key moment in the history of European landscape design, garden architecture, and social history. This facsimile edition, with its English-language text and reproductions of the original engravings, is accompanied by essays that interpret the landscape design and examine Carmontelle's larger career as a painter and theater producer.

About the author

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, New York. Joseph Disponzio is a landscape architect with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Summary

Carmontelle's landmark publication, Garden at Monceau, beautifully reproduced to show the Parisian garden's artistic and cultural importance before the French Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Carmontelle, Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
• Assisted by: Joseph Disponzio (Editor), Disponzio Joseph (Editor), Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (Editor), Laurence Chatel de Brancion (Introduction), Andrew Ayers (Translation), Ayers Andrew (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780300254686
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25468-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; France, European History, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, HISTORY / Europe / France, History of Architecture, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, Landscape architecture and design, ARCHITECTURE / History / Baroque & Rococo, rococo