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The Artist and the Garden (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
The Artist and the Garden - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis Author:Roy Strong This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early 1800s. Garden and art historian Sir Roy Strong offers a unique view of garden art--from Elizabethan miniatures to eighteenth-century alfresco conversation pieces to suites of paintings of... more » a single garden--and explains what gardens meant to those who owned and portrayed them. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art« less