Review article
Introduction of the landscape style in Parks of cetral Europe
Sonja Jurković
Abstract
The article describes the appearance and influence of the landscape style in parks that originated in England at the beginning of the eightenth century. This was a completely new style and atitude to park layout that made use ofnatural elements. It reflected the social transformation that lead to emancipation from the absolutist constraints of the Court.
This new outlok and atitude to the environment lead to the transformation of the then existing baroque style in park layout.
The author compares parks reshaped in this way on the example of the Vienna Court park and its influence on the courts of south Moravia and west Hungary. The new landscape style that was used in almost all the parks in the region developed into the romantic park, to which belongs Maksimir Park in Zagreb laid out in 1846. Thus it is interesting to compare all those examples.
As time passes it will no longer be possible to recognize the special layout language used in that style and all that will remain will be the superficial impression that the landscape style is the mere imitation ofnature. Therefore, its formative elements must be rediscovered, and they will show how very present artistic creativity was in the formation of such areas and with how much success such parks were created.
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Hrčak ID:
30769
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Publication date:
30.6.1994.
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