Tag Archives: Earl of Arundel

Solomon de Caus in England

Posted on 21/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Roy Strong in The Renaissance Garden asserts, quite rightly, that early writers on garden history seem to have overlooked the huge part played in garden design in the late 15th to early 17thc by engineers. The Renaissance humanist mind saw no … Continue reading →

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Hollar’s Fashionable Landscapes

Posted on 15/06/2019 by The Gardens Trust

It’s strange how much of our visual knowledge of what mid-17thc England was like comes through the work of non-English artists, like Van Dyke and Wenceslaus Hollar. Whereas most people have heard of Van Dyke I’m not so sure if … Continue reading →