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Gardens of Versailles The Bassin d'Apollon in the Gardens of Versailles Parterre of the Versailles Orangerie Gardens of the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles. The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.
Trees and shrubbery dating from the reign of Louis XIV were felled or uprooted with the intent of transforming the French formal garden of Le Nôtre and Hardouin-Mansart into a version of an English landscape garden. The attempt to convert Le Nôtre's masterpiece into an English-style garden failed to achieve its desired goal.
André Mollet became royal gardener to Queen Christina in Stockholm.His lasting record is his handsomely-printed folio, Le Jardin de plaisir ("The Pleasure Garden") , Stockholm 1651, which he illustrated with meticulous copperplate engravings after his own designs, and which, with an eye to a European aristocratic clientele, he published in Swedish, French and German.
Gardens of the Château de Villandry View of the Diane de Poitiers' garden at the Château de Chenonceau Medici Fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. Gardens of the French Renaissance were initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal jardin à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century.
The Orangerie in the Gardens of Versailles with the Pièce d’eau des Suisses in the background (French formal garden) Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden ...
Mark Laird, Hugh Palmer: The Formal Garden. Traditions of Art and Nature. Thames and Hudson, London 1992, ISBN 0-500-01542-2. Günter Mader, Laila Neubert-Mader: The English Formal Garden. Five Centuries of Design. Aurum, London 1997, ISBN 1-85410-473-X. Allen S. Weiss: Mirrors of Infinity. The French Formal Garden and 17th-Century Metaphysics.
A French formal garden or jardin à la française, is a specific kind of formal garden, laid out in the manner of André Le Nôtre; it is centered on the façade of a building, with radiating avenues and paths of gravel, lawns, parterres and pools (bassins) of reflective water enclosed in geometric shapes by stone coping, with fountains and ...
Terrace of the Orangerie, Palace of Versailles (1684). The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. The style originated in the late-16th century in Italy, in the gardens of the Vatican and the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome and in the gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, and then spread to France, where it became known as the ...