A Reception History of Early Modern Landscape Design. This project aims to address the problem of how to develop a reception history of designed landscapes. It expects to generate new knowledge in the area of landscape history through an innovative history of early modern gardens focused on reception rather than design, a detailed case study of the experiential dimensions of the Sacred Wood in Bomarzo (Italy), and the initiation of a global reception history of gardens. Expected outcomes of this ....A Reception History of Early Modern Landscape Design. This project aims to address the problem of how to develop a reception history of designed landscapes. It expects to generate new knowledge in the area of landscape history through an innovative history of early modern gardens focused on reception rather than design, a detailed case study of the experiential dimensions of the Sacred Wood in Bomarzo (Italy), and the initiation of a global reception history of gardens. Expected outcomes of this project include new methods and techniques for the analysis of landscape and enhanced capacity to build international collaborations. This should provide significant benefits for the understanding of the socio-cultural uses and preservation of heritage landscapes by both scholars and the public.Read moreRead less
The monster in the garden: reframing renaissance landscape design. This project argues that the Renaissance garden was much more than a benign Arcadian paradise. Most important gardens of the period incorporated statues and other images of monsters, reflecting contemporary fears about abnormality and difference, and troubling the simplistic view of the garden as a bucolic idyll.
The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern England. This project aims to significantly expand and augment prevailing historical concepts of landscape design. It will be the first to examine early modern gardens in terms of contemporary experience. The written responses of contemporary visitors to Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens will be compared with literary motifs of the time. Research will explore the proposition that gardens were complex cultural constructions capable of eliciting a wide range of ....The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern England. This project aims to significantly expand and augment prevailing historical concepts of landscape design. It will be the first to examine early modern gardens in terms of contemporary experience. The written responses of contemporary visitors to Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens will be compared with literary motifs of the time. Research will explore the proposition that gardens were complex cultural constructions capable of eliciting a wide range of responses.Read moreRead less