RENAISSANCE REPORT ASSIGNMENT: Web search- Renaissance gardens
Length: Minimum 400 words.
Now that you have been introduced to the renaissance design style, it's obvious that the rules are strict, the decor lavish and the theme just plain over-the-top with everything. Perfection, opulence, orderly geometric layout and control was not enough in most cases-precisely a group of high and unattainable standards! Vast expanses of land, terraces and ramparts, endless views, thousands of fountains and leagues of skilled laborers to maintain swirling patterns of tightly clipped shrubbery to ward off natural evils, military applications for security and boundary enhancement all have been translated in some way into the contemporary garden design styles of today.
Rather than search for a garden we have already been introduced to, such as Versailles, Villa Gamberia, Isola Bella, Het Loo, etc. look for contemporary gardens (20th century) that were inspired by these models. Resorts, Sports facilities and Civic memorial sites world wide express accurate examples of renaissance application in their garden design.
A good example is 'carpet bedding', which is the laying out of patterns of colorful flowering annual plants as in parterre, which give the viewer a picture in plants, like the clock in the valley of the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco Golden Gate Park. On the garden of your choice- Give statistical information briefly.
Make comparisons of particular elements such as fountains, grotto, shrub patterns and parterre.
What is it's purpose?
What is your opinion of the renaissance garden style?
How much is the annual maintenance cost or how many are employed to care for this garden?