Main entry:

Morgan, Luke.

Title & Author:

Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.

Description:

x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-287) and index.
Madman, martyr, magus: the critical reception of Salomon de Caus -- Salomon de Caus, 1576-1626 -- The Coudenberg Palace grottoes -- The prince's engineer: Salomon de Caus in London -- Between the workshop and the library: Salomon de Caus as a reader -- Theory into practice: The hortus Palatinus.

Summary:

Salomon de Caus has been viewed as, variously, a Protestant martyr, the unsung inventor of the steam engine, one of the most important early hydraulic engineers, and a garden designer whose work was influenced by astrology and hermeticism. The first comprehensive book on this protean figure, Nature as Model sifts through historical material, Caus's own writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure. In doing so, it clarifies numerous hitherto unresolved problems in his biography and historiography. As Luke Morgan shows, Caus made important contributions to some of the most significant landscape projects of his period, including the gardens of Coudenberg Palace in Brussels, Richmond Palace, Hatfield House, Somerset House, Greenwich Palace in London, as well as, most famously, the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg, which he designed for the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, and his wife, Elisabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England. In his work, Caus drew on his intimate knowledge of the late sixteenth-century Italian garden, and through his commissions the design principles and motifs of the late Renaissance garden were transmitted across Europe. The book is a masterful exercise in historical reconstruction, showing how Caus has been read by subsequent generations intent on nationalism, romance, or magic. Morgan investigates the ways in which the early modern garden actually generated meaning through conventional motifs rather than through esoteric narrative programs. -- Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

0812239636 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812239638 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Caus, Salomon de, -1626.
Caus, Salomon de, d. 1626. Studies.
Caus, Salomon de, approximately 1576-1626.
Caus, Salomon de 1576-1626
Caus, Salomon de 1576-1626 Hortus palatinus
Caus, Salomon de.
Landscape architects France Biography.
Hydraulic engineers France Biography.
Gardens Europe Design History 17th century.
Landscape design Europe History 17th century.
Architectes paysagistes France Biographies.
Ingénieurs hydrauliciens France Biographies.
Jardins Architecture Europe Histoire 17e siècle.
Aménagement paysager Europe Histoire 17e siècle.
02.01 history of science and culture.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens Design.
Hydraulic engineers.
Landscape architects.
Landscape design.
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsgestaltung
Ästhetik
Landschaftsbau
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Tuinen.
Hydraulische techniek.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Europe.
France.
Frankrijk.
Geschichte 1600-1625

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249998
Call No.: BIB 179529
Status: Available