French Formal Garden

フランス式整形庭園 / 17th century– / Style / Garden Styles

The garden Le Nôtre perfected at Versailles: axis, symmetry and perspective, nature disciplined into geometry by shears and water — power made visible as spatial order.

Axes running to the vanishing point / Strict symmetry / Clipped geometry / Water mirrors and the grand canal

French Formal Garden — ヴェルサイユの軸線（CC BY-SA 3.0）French Formal Garden — 整形庭園の俯瞰（CC BY-SA 3.0）
ヴェルサイユの軸線（CC BY-SA 3.0） ／ 整形庭園の俯瞰（CC BY-SA 3.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
André Le Nôtre / Vaux-le-Vicomte / the politics of perspective

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