12. Illusions of Grandeur
A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King
- Dan O'Brien PhD Research Fellow Associate Lecturer
Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch12
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
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How to Cite
Neuman, R. (2010) Illusions of Grandeur, in Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (ed D. O'Brien), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch12
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Oxford Brookes University, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 24 SEP 2010
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Book Series Editors:
- Fritz Allhoff
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Western Michigan University, USA
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Print ISBN: 9781444330212
Online ISBN: 9781444324563
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- cosmic garden;
- illusions of grandeur - A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King;
- French monarch Louis XIV, “Louisle-Grand” or “Louis the Great” – on the European political stage;
- Louis XIV, inheritance of royal palaces and châteaux, the Louvre in Paris - lavishing attention on the old hunting lodge at Versailles;
- art of gardening, status enjoyed - as in painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music and dance;
- Louis XIV's principal architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart - and the circular white-marble arcade;
- Hardouin-Mansart's circular temple and imperial villa – symbolic of the Temple of Apollo;
- Colonnade, Versailles, with table fountains, circular water channel, spandrels and a keystone mask;
- Hardouin-Mansart, synthesizing concepts of villa colonnade with peripteral temple colonnade - and Hadrian's circular water channel;
- sculpture in Spandrel 16, the putti holding a lyre and panpipe - ancient legends, a comical contest between Apollo and the satyr Pan
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
A Temple of Apollo
Quoting the Roman Garden Villa
Harmonic Proportions
The Sculptural Program
Expanding the Theme of Harmony
Notes