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... painting , poetry , textiles , gardening and architecture . The two main sources of the records of Persian gardening ... paintings we gain a varied idea of the life of the people - the love of picnicking , and love - making in blue ...
... painting , poetry , textiles , gardening and architecture . The two main sources of the records of Persian gardening ... paintings we gain a varied idea of the life of the people - the love of picnicking , and love - making in blue ...
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... painting was the highest expression of Italian individualism , sculpture and architecture were the more tradi- tional among the arts , inspired by the ancient models that were being assiduously recovered from the soil . Painting was the ...
... painting was the highest expression of Italian individualism , sculpture and architecture were the more tradi- tional among the arts , inspired by the ancient models that were being assiduously recovered from the soil . Painting was the ...
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... paint a field with beautiful objects , natural and artificial , disposed like colours upon a canvas ' . By profession ... painting in a different medium . Perhaps the most competent judgement of Kent's influence in English gardening is ...
... paint a field with beautiful objects , natural and artificial , disposed like colours upon a canvas ' . By profession ... painting in a different medium . Perhaps the most competent judgement of Kent's influence in English gardening is ...
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century charm Chinese Chinese gardens cloister colour court cultivation Cut-work cypress decorative delight Dutch effect Egypt England English gardening fact fashion flowering plants flowers fountain French fruit grass Greece Greek green grotto ground groves Hampton Court hedges Helen Allingham herbs hills history of gardening horticulture idea Italian Italy land landscape later lawns lines manner marble medieval ment modern motive nature never ornament painting palace paradise park parterres period Persia Persian garden phase picture plants pleasure Pliny Pope Reginald Blomfield religious Renaissance Roman Rome roses scene scheme scientific seats shade side space spirit style surroundings symbolism taste temple terraces tion topiary tradition trees Tudor period variety VAUX-LE-VICOMTE Versailles villas violets walks walls wild Younger Pliny