Oct 24, 2020 | Tabloid art history
Hidcote Garden, in Cotswolds, England is an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden with intricately designed outdoor spaces in the rolling Cotswold hills. The arts and crafts movement favored natural looking plantings and meandering paths over the look of more manicured...
Oct 12, 2020 | Tabloid art history
Claude Monet is famous for painting many subjects: water lilies, cathedral facades, footbridges, and of course, his garden’s at Giverny, France, where he moved to in 1883. Monet did not like organized gardens common in other parts of France such as the Gardens...
Oct 12, 2020 | Tabloid art history
The Chrystal Palace, c. 1874, Sydenham, England Built in 1851 for the Great Exhibition of London, a precursor of the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia in 1876, the Chrystal Palace at 1,851 x 800 square feet was 4X the length of St. Peter’s Basilica and...
May 17, 2020 | Tabloid art history
An example of a picturesque garden in Topsfield, located at the corner of Prospect Street and River Road. The seemingly arbitrary plantings appear as though the garden sprang up on its own without human involvement. This is similar to the way Humphrey Repton would...
May 7, 2020 | Tabloid art history
The Regency in Great Britain refers to the time period when King George III (1760-1820), the guy blamed for losing the colonies to the original guerrilla warriors in the American Revolution, was deemed unfit to rule; his son ruled as Prince Regent. On his...
