If a new history of gardens is to be written, the basis of the study must be defined. Is it to be based on the remaining open spaces, the authenticity of which requires careful examination, or on spaces now disappeared which will have to be rediscovered? For each of these delicate tasks, what instruments should be...

In the 1560s, the master of a large copper engraving workshop, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, On Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1520?–1585 or 86), consult H. de Geymuller, Les du Cerceau (Paris 1887) and the unpublished thesis of D....