Gardens have provided the location, the subjects the pastime and the passion for our greatest artists, from Matisse and Monet to Dali and Da Vinci. This book looks at 20 gardens and more than 30 associated artists and examines the art, the garden-making, and the gardens they immortalised which you can visit today.
Gardens have provided the location, the subjects the pastime and the passion for our greatest artists, from Matisse and Monet to Dali and Da Vinci. This book looks at 20 gardens and more than 30 associated artists and examines the art, the garden-making, and the gardens they immortalised which you can visit today.
Jackie Bennett has travelled widely, visiting and writing about gardens. Her books include Shakespeare’s Gardens, The Writer’s Garden, Wild About the Garden and Island Gardens. She is a former editor of The Garden Design Journal and The English Garden.
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THE ARTIST AT HOME AND AT WORK
Leonardo da Vinci Amboise, France
Peter Paul Rubens Antwerp, Belgium
Paul Cezanne Aix-en Provence, France
Pierre August Renoir Champagne and Le Côte d'Azur, France
Max Liebermann Lake Wannsee, Germany
Joaquin Sorolla Madrid, Spain
Henri Le Sidaner Gerberoy, Picardie, France
Emil Nolde Seebull, Nordfriesland, Germany
Frida Kahlo The Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico
Salvador Dali Portlligat and Púbol, Spain
THE ARTISTS' COMMUNITY
Monet and friends Argenteuil, Vétheuil and Giverny, France
The Skagen Painters North Jutland, Denmark
The Kirkcudbright artists 156 Broughton House, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, UK
William Morris and his circle 168 Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire, England, UK
New England Impressionists 182 Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire, USA
German Expressionists 194 Murnau, Bavaria, Germany The Charleston artists 206 Charleston, Sussex, England, UK
Selected reading 218 Visiting details 218 Index 220 Acknowledgments and picture credits 224
