# English Landscape Garden × French Formal Garden — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=english-landscape-garden+french-formal-garden
# English Landscape Garden carries the structure. French Formal Garden appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from English Landscape Garden (Style, 1720s–1800s) and its accent from French Formal Garden (Style, 17th century–). Structural cues: Rolling lawn and lake; Temples and follies; The concealed ha-ha fence; A sequence of pictorial views. Accent cues, used sparingly: Axes running to the vanishing point; Strict symmetry; Clipped geometry; Water mirrors and the grand canal. Composition: No straight lines or symmetry, let lawn and water curve inward. Type and lettering: Keep names and notices at the building, no lettering in the view. Let one material quality come from the second style: Clip to a level line and use water as a mirror for the sky. Mood: Calm, Exhilaration, Luxury, Trust. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Garden Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
# - Roughly 1703 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - English Landscape Garden: Naturalness becomes an excuse for leaving the ground alone, so neither the modeled contours nor the massed trees appear and the lawn simply goes rough.
# - French Formal Garden: Axis and symmetry get copied without designing the recession, and with no budget for the labor of clipping, the outlines slacken within a few years.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/english-landscape-garden/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/french-formal-garden/design.md