Garden design lessons from ‘Old Master’ landscape painters
‘Old Masters’ were landscape painters in the period 1600 to 1800. Painting landscapes was a pan-European art movement, in part motivated by the longing for idyllic, pastoral landscapes of ancient Athens and ancient Rome (which were pure fantasy landscapes and bore no resemblance to reality), and in other part motivated by the longing of wealthy landowners to capture their land holdings in oil paint in a canvas that could be hung prominently in a public part of their house, li
