Book contents
- The Ruins of Rome
- Frontispiece
- The Ruins of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Ruins in Antiquity
- 2 How Rome Became Ruinous
- 3 Mediaeval Responses to the Ruins of Rome
- 4 The Watershed
- 5 The Battle for the Ruins
- 6 From Topographical Treatise to Guidebook
- 7 The Ruins Visualised
- 8 ‘Virtual’ Rome
- 9 Remembering the Grand Tour
- 10 Ruins in the Landscape Garden
- 11 Conservation, Restoration and Presentation of Ruins
- 12 Literary Responses to the Ruins
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Ruins in the Landscape Garden
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2025
Book contents
- The Ruins of Rome
- Frontispiece
- The Ruins of Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Ruins in Antiquity
- 2 How Rome Became Ruinous
- 3 Mediaeval Responses to the Ruins of Rome
- 4 The Watershed
- 5 The Battle for the Ruins
- 6 From Topographical Treatise to Guidebook
- 7 The Ruins Visualised
- 8 ‘Virtual’ Rome
- 9 Remembering the Grand Tour
- 10 Ruins in the Landscape Garden
- 11 Conservation, Restoration and Presentation of Ruins
- 12 Literary Responses to the Ruins
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Such was the aesthetic appeal of a Roman ruin that English grand tourists began to decorate their parkland back home, now landscaped in a sort of ‘faux-naturalism’, with sham ruins. The eighteenth-century fashion for the English garden swept over continental Europe, and many gardens, surprisingly even in Rome itself, have sham Roman ruins after the English fashion. The fashion for sham ‘Roman’ ruins continued into the twentieth century and was extended to the United States and Japan.
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- The Ruins of RomeA Cultural History, pp. 212 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025