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A pleasure garden is a park or garden that is open to the public for recreation and entertainment. Pleasure gardens differ from other public gardens by serving as venues for entertainment, variously featuring such attractions as concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, zoos, and menageries. Paderborn Castle, Germany, in 1736, with its ...
- Antoine Watteau
- Jean-Honore Fragonard
- Last Year in Marienbad
- Conclusion
- References
Watteau’s Embarkation for Cythera (1719) links historically and pictorially to the classical tradition of the locus amoenus, and thus provides a bridge from the trope of the erotic pastoral to the rococo fascination with imprecision and ambivalence in human relations (Fig. 3). The island of Cythera, geographically located off the south-east tip of ...
In the work of Fragonard (1732-1806) a devotion to a relatively narrow thematic territory enables a thorough exploration of the impulses of the body and the mind. He explores every nuance of the liminal zone between order and passion, whose modern version of the edgy and subtle flicker of transgression was almost, as it were, invented by him in art...
Two gardens that the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel made at the time Watteau was painting his fêtes galantes feature in French film director Alain Resnais’ L’Annêe Dernière à Marienbad (1961), known in English as Last Year in Marienbad. Resnais combined a number of Bavarian chateaux gardens into the setting for his cinematic exploration of memory and...
The application to gardens of a theory of pleasure other than that of Spinoza’s would necessarily yield a different interpretation of pleasure gardens. But Spinoza, if anything, is a philosopher of life. That gardens are places where human beings may discover and experience what human life can be, is one of the fundamental insights of Harrison’s Ga...
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A pleasure ground is, effectively, what the words themselves say - ground that gives human pleasure. There are plenty of places that give enjoyment, but true pleasure grounds, in the context of the English garden, are highly contrived gardens that seek to emulate nature. Pleasure grounds are, of course, highly artificial and they became an ...
The pleasure ground was an ornately designed garden area. It consisted of an ornamental lawn at several levels immediately next to the house. This lawn required a lot of maintenance, because the aim was to make the lawn appear like a "velvet carpet". The ornamentation included native and exotic plants that were laid out as flower carpets in ...
Quick Reference. 1 Any garden or pleasure-ground for relaxation, etc., distinct from a vegetable-garden, kitchen-garden, or orchard. 2 Garden run as a commercial enterprise from the Restoration (1660) until the mid-C19 in London. Spring (later Vauxhall) Gardens was one of the first, with straight walks, regular rows of trees, and secluded areas ...
A pleasure garden is a park or garden that is open to the public for recreation and entertainment. Pleasure gardens differ from other public gardens by serving as venues for entertainment, variously featuring such attractions as concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, zoos, and menageries. Paderborn Castle, Germany, in 1736, with its ...
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Glitz and glamour – with a seedy underbelly. Pleasure gardens were the place to be in the 1700s and 1800s. If you could afford the entry fee, you could mingle under the stars with the city’s fashionable clientele for a night of music, dancing, drinking and eating. They were a highlight of London’s summer nightlife for over 100 years.
