Topic Four: Landscape, Representation, Intervention and Body-as-Site Garden Images from the reading

These are the images of gardens indicated on the reading.

Marie Antoinette's 'hameau', or, The Queen's Hamlet

Ha-ha (recessed wall)

Parco del Mostri (garden, Italy)

Roman Forum (ruins, Italy)


Boboli Garden (garden, Italy)

Jardin du Luxembourg (garden, France)

Tivoli Garden (Villa d'Este, Rome, Italy)

Bernini's Four Rivers (Italy)


Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d'Emaille (Netherlands)

Stowe Garden (England)

Stourhead Garden (England)

Washington DC parks (parks [look at any], USA)

Picturesque style garden




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