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Article: Gardens and Parks
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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GARDENS AND PARKS
GARDENS AND PARKS.
Long appreciated for their formal and botanical contents, the gardens and parks of early modern Europe were also products of complex historical forces and conditions. Between the mid-fifteenth and late eighteenth centuries, major trends included increasing integration of architecture and garden design; an increasing dominance of axial composition and bilateral symmetry; new emphasis on visual integration between gardens and the surrounding landscape; and, in the eighteenth century, the emergence and development of irregular design.
In Renaissance Italy, developments in garden design were greatly influenced by the rise of humanist culture and the ...