ROYAL GARDENS OF DENMARK, THE.

Author: Hendeliowitz, Jens
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 350
Illustrations: 348 Color Illustrations. 13 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 8799012413
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index. Bios.
Code: 5524

Price: $95.00

This book is about the gardens that the royal family and the state have opened to the Danish public and the many toursits that visit Denmark. In concise desciptions and lovely illustrations it presents facets of Danish landscape architecture as it has developed over a period of more than four centuries. The book shows examples that have been preserved to this day, restored, or recreated, illustrating the garden culture of the Renaissance, the Baroque, and the Romantic era, and showing the influence that they have had on the development of Danish garden culture. This book can be used as a reference work to find out about the individual garden or read as a whole. Selected bibliography in English, French, and German. Also Including glossary, royal chronology and an index of persons. A gorgeous coffee table book for the eye as well as the brain.