European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects (1902) (14740326886)

Identifier: europeanjapanese01brow (find matches)
Title: European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932 Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951 Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931 Honda, Kinkichiro, 1850-1921
Subjects: Gardens Gardens
Publisher: Philadelphia, H.T. Coates & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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THE BASIN OF THE DRAGON VERSAILLES European and Japanese Gardens
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THE ORANGERY VERSAILLES effect, the least advanced of all the arts. Consequently thecharacteristics of the various peoples practicing it were littlemarked, for the early arts of all peoples much resemble oneanother; it is only at the higher, and especially the highestpoints of their respective developments, that the finer and morecharacteristic elements of a race are brought out in its artaccomplishment. Du Cerceau, in commenting upon the undoubted influencewhich the taste of the Italians exercised over their northernneighbors, outlines the type which was common in both Franceand Italy. Everywhere, he says, were great divisions withav-enues of high trees, fences of hazel, and hedges of hawthorne.Long, trellised arbors, opening out at intervals into shady sum-mer-houses, ideally arranged for scenes of gallantry, sur-rounded the open central space, or divided it into severalindividual gardens. Marble basins with spouting water-jetsand cascades, gliding from artificial rocks, made up the