
Painting Paradise: Art of the Garden – Royal Collection Pt 2
In the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 2015 a show of paintings, botanical studies, manuscripts and more will be devoted to ideas of painting paradise
In the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 2015 a show of paintings, botanical studies, manuscripts and more will be devoted to ideas of painting paradise
Renaissance designers grasped the idea of a garden everyone would be happy enjoying life and love in together as in Arcadia pastoral home of the Ancient Greeks
An advocate of humanism and a mutil-talented Renaissance man Genoese born architect Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most brilliant celebrities of his day
When in 1563 Humanist Poet Annibal Caro retired into private life, to alternate between Rome and the countryside, he said ‘I seem to have found the alchemy of staying well’