Fekete, A., 2010, Transylvanian Noble Residence gardens, in: 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 27, 3
- Author : Fekete, A.
- Year : 2010
- Title English : Transylvanian Noble Residence gardens
- Journal/Series : 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 3
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 27
- Pages : 16-30
- Abstract in English : 18th century Transylvanian gardens, mostly following French design, with the large pond in the middle of the garden – as a passive resistance to foreign oppression represented by the Viennese Baroque – transform and expand exclusively into landscape gardens throughout the 19th century. These artistic gardens, created along the lines of the new ideology, no longer symbolize grandeur, but are rather microcosms of intimate retreat, solitude and contemplation. The transition is of course, gradual. Just as Baroque and Classicist features intermingle on a castle elevation, certain attributes of a French park live on after the conquest of the English garden.1 The popularity of the gloriette, the fountain, the grottas, the Greek god sculptures, and the hunting lodges is just the same, while the strictly straight alleys and trimmed hedges, as well as the shadeless spaces quickly disappear from the Transylvanian gardens, and are replaced by trees with wide-spreading branches and winding roads. With the unfolding of Classicism in architecture, the Transylvanian current of Palladianism is born and the English park and sentimental garden, proclaiming nature’s liberty, become fashionable.