This is the only single work devoted exclusively to the history of the garden grotto - the caves in landscape gardens that were artificially enhanced by waterfalls and ornamental delights to imitate,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This work traces the history of the grotto from its origins in antiquity through its many revivals, most famously as important elements of Renaissance humanist gardens and of European landscape gardens that delight in waterfalls and cave dwellers - theatrical displays from Biblical sources of the 18th century
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