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Alfresco banquet in the forest of Isle-Adam, given by the Prince de Conti in 1766

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Description: Alfresco banquet in the forest of Isle-Adam, given by the Prince de Conti in 1766
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Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...
Elsewhere is always paradise. To escape from our everyday surroundings is to experience the feeling of entering ‘another world’. The desire to encounter the duality of existence, ever-present in the history of humanity, sends us in search of a world different from our own, rich with possibilities. In this sense, the association between gardens and paradise is not only the perpetuation...
PublisherMIT Press
Related print edition pages: pp.483-494
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122.074

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