The Baroque garden style originated in late 16th century Italy and spread to France, with gardens designed around symmetry and imposing order on nature. Baroque gardens were extremely expensive to build and maintain, requiring large staffs and irrigation. They featured geometric patterns, gravel paths and alleys intersecting at fountains and statues. Bushes and trees were sculpted into shapes and water was usually in long ponds or circular ponds with fountains. By the mid-18th century, the style was replaced by more natural English landscape gardens.
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Baroque Garden
The Baroque garden style originated in late 16th century Italy and spread to France, with gardens designed around symmetry and imposing order on nature. Baroque gardens were extremely expensive to build and maintain, requiring large staffs and irrigation. They featured geometric patterns, gravel paths and alleys intersecting at fountains and statues. Bushes and trees were sculpted into shapes and water was usually in long ponds or circular ponds with fountains. By the mid-18th century, the style was replaced by more natural English landscape gardens.
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• THE BAROQUE GARDEN WAS A STYLE • ARBESQUE PATTERN
OF GARDEN BASED UPON SYMMETRY • STAR SHAPE PATTERN
AND THE PRINCIPLE OF IMPOSING • DECORATIVELY SHAPE BED PATTERN ORDER ON NATURE. • STONE BOWLS • THE STYLE ORIGINATED IN THE LATE- • TERRACOTTA POTS 16TH CENTURY IN ITALY, IN THE GARDENS • SCULPTURES OF THE VATICAN AND THE VILLA • STONE PLANTERS BOEGHESE GARDEN IN ROME AND IN • STONE COLUMN ARBESQUE PATTERN SHAPE BED PATTERN STAR PATTERN • BASINS THE GARDENS OF THE VILLA D’ESTE TERROCATTA SCULPTURE IN TIVOLI, AND THEN SPREAD TO FRANCE • CANALS POTS WHERE IT BECAME KNOWN AS • CASCADES THE JARDIN A LA FRANÇAIS OR FRENCH • BAROQUE GARDENS WERE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE • DECORATIVELY SHAPE FORMAL GARDEN. TO BUILD AND TO MAINTAIN BED PATTERN • BAROQUE GARDENS WERE BUILT IN • THEY REQUIRED LARGE NUMBERS OF GARDENERS OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE, INCLUDING AND CONTINUAL TRIMMING AND UPKEEP, AS GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SPAIN, AND IN WELL AS INTRICATE SYSTEMS OF IRRIGATION TO PROVIDE WATER. STONR PLANTERS SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. • IN THE MID-18TH CENTURY THE STYLE • AFTER THE END OF THE SEVEN YEAR WAR IN WATER CANAL COLUMN WAS REPLACED BY THE MORE LESS- 1763, THE STYLE BEGAN TO BE ADAPTED IN FRENCH GARDENS. TREES GEOMETRIC AND MORE • THE NEW STYLE ALSO HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF • OAK TREE NATURAL ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN. REQUIRING FEWER GARDENERS, AND WAS EASIER • LAURE TREE TO MAINTAIN, THAN THE FRENCH GARDEN. • CYPRESS TREE • BAROQUE GARDENS WERE INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE MASTERY OF MAN OVER WATER BASIN FLOWER PLANTS STONE BOWL NATURE. • HIBISCUS • THEY WERE OFTEN DESIGNED TO BE SEEN FROM ABOVE AND FROM A LITTLE DISTANCE • IRISIS • THEY WERE LAID OUT LIKE ROOMS IN A HOUSE, IN GEOMETRIC PATTERNS, DIVIDED BY • WILD CLEMATIS GRAVEL ALLEYS OR LANES, WITH THE MEETING POINTS OF THE LANES OFTEN MARKED • RED ROSE BY FOUNTAINS OR STATUES. • WHITE LILAC • FLOWER BEDS WERE DESIGNED LIKE TAPESTRIES, WITH BANDS OF SHRUBBERY AND CASCADE AND ALLEYS • WHITE JASMINE FLOWERS FORMING THE DESIGNS. THE GARDENS OF VERSAILLES. • HOLLYHOCK • LARGER BUSHES AND TREES WERE SCULPTED INTO CONICAL OR DOME-LIKE SHAPES, SITUATED TO THE WEST OF THE PALACE THE • PEONY AND TREES WERE GROUPED IN BOSQUETS, OR ORDERLY CLUSTERS. GARDENS COVER SOME 800 HECTARES OF LAND • VOILETS • WATER WAS USUALLY PRESENT IN THE FORM OF LONG RECTANGULAR PONDS, OR •PLANTS-200,000 TREES,210,000 FLOWERS • HYDRANGEA CIRCULAR PONDS WITH FOUNTAINS. PLANTED ANNUALLY • WHITE ROSE • THE GARDENS USUALLY INCLUDED ONE MORE SMALL PAVILIONS WHERE VISITORS •FEATURES- 50 FOUNTAIN,5.7KM GRAND CANAL FRUIT PLANTS COULD TAKE SHELTER FROM THE SUN OR RAIN. SUBMITTED TO: AR.AKSHAT GARG SUBMITTED BY: POOJA , NOOR