 | Han Lörzing - 2001 - 184 Seiten
...its kind. As Horace Walpole wrote about one of the movement's leading figures, designer William Kent: 'he leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden'. The Landscape Style was the first movement in Western garden design that brought poets, writers, painters,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 Seiten
...appeared [William] Kent, painter enough to taste the charms ol landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight ol imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. He lelt the delicious... | |
 | Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka - 2004 - 396 Seiten
...Versailles, France. Copyright Giraudon, Art Resource, NY Gardening, Horace Walpole said that Kent was "born with a genius to strike out a great system from...He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden."34 Critical to his approach, of course, is the notion of a nature that simply required a few... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - 2004 - 292 Seiten
...capable, dit-il, d'élaborer un système à partir du « crépuscule de tentatives imparfaites » : «He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. »17 L'éducation de William Kent (1685-1748) l'amène à concevoir le paysage comme le fait un peintre... | |
 | Tom Turner - 2005 - 316 Seiten
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 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 Seiten
...Walpole (1717-97) credited Kent for being the first to give poetic form to the new landscape style: "He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden." Kent's innovations included a mastery of perspective, painterly contrasts of light and shape, the natural... | |
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Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a... 
