English landscape garden
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The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden, is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Eu
A monopteros at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738)
The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.
Castle Howard (1699–1712), a predecessor of the English garden modelled on the gardens of Versailles
Ionic Temple at Chiswick House in west London
Stowe Gardens
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Stowe Gardens, formerly Stowe Landscape Gardens, are extensive Grade I listed gardens and parkland in Buckinghamshire, England. Largely created in the 18th century, the gardens at Stowe are arguably t
English landscape garden
…within. Finally, he added cascades modelled on those of the garden of Villa Aldobrandini and Villa di Pratolino in Italy, to add movement and drama. Stowe Gardens, in Buckinghamshire, (1730–1738), was an even more radical departure from the formal French garden. In the early 18th century, Richard Temple, 1st…
The Palladian Bridge
Stowe, c.1750 – A View at the Entrance between the Pavilions (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Aerial view south over the gardens 1978
The Eleven-Acre Lake