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Rational Approach and Geometric Control of Nature during the Baroque Period
Authors: Moraitis, Konstantinos
Reviewer: Tournikiotis, Panagiotis
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Abstract:
Associated with the grandeur of royal and ecclesiastical power, the landscape designs of the Baroque era in France—the extensive sequences of gardens, their axial arrangements stretching toward infinity—are perhaps the most magnificent examples of landscape design in Western history. Their normative organization indicates conditions of control, capable of claiming, both from the perspective of historical contexts and geometric emphasis, a connection to rationalism. Thus, the logocentric period of the 17th century becomes associated with the grandeur of its official cultural behavior. With the royal scale of gestures, with what is described by the French term grand goût (“great taste”), and with the majestic style of the European Counter-Reformation and the great hegemonic houses that the landscape artistry of the time displays. The more detailed development of these examples insists on emphasizing the “visual order” of the design.
Technical Editors: Kyrkitsou, Nefeli
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2625
Bibliographic Reference: Moraitis, K. (2015). Rational Approach and Geometric Control of Nature during the Baroque Period [Chapter]. In Moraitis, K. 2015. The art of the landscape [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2625
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The art of the landscape
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions