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A virtuoso landscape architect.(Books about antiques)(Salomon de Caus)(Book review)
If Salomon de Caus, the seventeenth-century designer of such useful and beautiful appurtenances as garden gates and walls, were alive today he would have a thriving career in places like Greenwich, Connecticut, where such structures, as they did in his time, make a definitive statement about a homeowner's wealth and stature. De Caus was well known and highly regarded in his day for the enormous contributions he made to a number of the most beautiful gardens in Europe, but, unfortunately for us, many of these gardens are known today only through prints and written descriptions and other documents. De Caus built fountains, grottoes, and an elaborate labyrinth at Coudenberg Palace in Brussels; a "Rockhouse" or "grotta" to enclose the cistern at Richmond Palace; and a "Parnassus" for the garden at Somerset House. He wrote seven treatises on widely varying topics, five of which were published.
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According to Luke Morgan, lecturer in the department of Theory of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and author of the recently published monograph Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design, this was not all de Caus did. He was also well versed in "Vitruvian architectural theory; Euclidian geometry; perspective; anamorphic effects; mirrors; shadow projection; automata; hydraulic technology; labor-saving machines; and various other instruments; garden, fountain, and grotto design; domestic architecture; ancient and modern musical composition; sundial design; astronomy; cartography; urban sanitation; and bridge construction." Beginning with de Caus's own treatises, Morgan follows the paper trail (which sometimes consists literally of scraps) of the designer's career and compares it to what survives of his works or period engravings of them.
Just as it is for today's interior designers, architects, and landscape architects, travel was a requirement of the job. Thus, de ...
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- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Ehrlich, Tracy L. September 22, 2007 700+ words
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire July 30, 2004 700+ words
...property to William Herbert in about 1542 and Wilton House has remained in the Pembroke family ever since. Around 1632 Isaac De Caus transformed the 21-acre gardens to include water features. The house was substantially re-built in the Palladian style...
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...teleological manner, Worsley tentatively attributes the stables at Fonthill House, Ramsbury House and Wilton House to Isaac de Caus. This period marks the beginning of a long tradition of adapting classical detail to stables. Sixteenth- and seventeenth...
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