LA 166 Exam 2 Study Guide (2) Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers The great canal and the semi-circle of limes in the East garden at Hampton Court conveys the French influence that appeared in the garden under Charles II. - Correct Answer True William Kent abandoned the idea of a landscape with literary or moral associations and instead explored the expressive possibilities of the purely natural landscape. - Correct Answer False This garden built by Henry Hoare II involves an itinerary of classic associations experienced at particular stations developed along a path that surrounds a central lake. - Correct Answer Stourhead Which of the following people and/or their work, likely contributed to the English Landscape Movement of the 18th century? - Correct Answer Alexander Pope, Claude Lorrain and Joseph Addison A formal grove of trees planted in a geometrical arrangement, often trees of the same plant species.
- Correct Answer Bosquet
A double row of trees often linking garden features, or reinforcing axes in the garden. - Correct Answer allee Literally translates as green cloth. A swath of lawn, usually rectilinear in shape, used to strengthen a visual axis or focus attention on an object. - Correct Answer tapis vert A feature placed on a distant, prominent point, integral to the overall design of the landscape. Often gives direction and focus to a garden; is sometimes a place of destination. - Correct Answer eye catcher A small channel through which water flows. - Correct Answer rill Which of the following garden features are located along the garden's main axis (west of the Chateau) at Versailles? - Correct Answer The Parterre d'Eau, The Fountain of Latona, the Basin of Apollo 1 / 2
Which of the following garden features are found at Stourhead Garden? - Correct Answer The Pantheon, The Temple of Apollo, The Temple of Flora The following garden features can be found at William Kent's Rousham Gardens. - Correct Answer Venus Vale, Praeneste, Dying Gladiator This garden by William Kent offers a view of the countryside from the perspective of the garden, and a view of the garden informed by the perspective of countryside. - Correct Answer Rousham Color plays a secondary role in this garden. - Correct Answer The White Garden The "entrance hall", surrounded by Vita's purple border planting. - Correct Answer The Top Courtyard A private garden, intimate with warm colors. - Correct Answer The Cottage Garden Ferns blanket the ground beneath hazel trees in this very natural looking garden. - Correct Answer The Nuttery Harold's creation. The planting beds along this garden axis formed by an allée of pleached lindens are underplanted with spring bulbs, making it the first garden to flower in the spring. - Correct Answer The Lime Walk Which of the following likely contributed to the English landscape movement of the 18th century. - Correct Answer England's Political Environment (gardens became a means of political expression), Painting (the fascination of the English with work by artists like Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain), Writing (an increase in literary work concerning gardens and nature) The new trends in gardening during the Victorian period were influenced by many factors including: - Correct Answer Changes in taste, A growing passion for horticulture (plant collecting), Advances in horticulture technology Where in the garden of Versailles was Marie Antoinette able to enjoy the style of a farming life, acting out the life and customs of peasants? - Correct Answer The Hameau
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