Tag Archives: Robert Smythson

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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Bolsover: a Mannerist Masterpiece

Posted on 20/01/2018 by The Gardens Trust

If you’ve ever driven on the M1 between Nottingham and Sheffield you can’t have missed the large castle perched high on a steep promontory overlooking and commanding the wide valley below. This is Bolsover Castle, visible for miles around, and … Continue reading →

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Mounds & Mounts 2: the heights of fashion

Posted on 19/09/2015 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post showed how earlier landscape features such as tumuli and castle mottes were reused to create prospect mounds in gardens. But by the mid-16thc mounts were also being deliberately constructed to gain a view not only over the garden … Continue reading →