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Pergola and fountain, from F. Colonna, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," Venice 1499

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Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...
In the most alarming and disturbing of his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Edgar Allan Poe, speculating about the ‘land of Arnheim’, expresses surprise that ‘no-one had ever described the landscape gardener as a poet although the creation of a landscape garden offers to the Muses the perfect opportunity for inspiration’. These words are spoken by Ellison, the...
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Related print edition pages: pp.47-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122.005

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