Gardens Evolving thru Time: 1700s Music Parties Outdoors in Gardens & Parks

Thursday, December 5, 2019

1700s Music Parties Outdoors in Gardens & Parks

1720 Unknown French artist. A Musical Assembly in a Park

A Country Party of Musicians (after Jean-Baptiste Pater) 1730-50

Alexander van Haecken (Flemish artist, 1701-1758) A Fashionable Music Party

Music Party under an Awning (after Jean-Antoine Watteau (French artist, 1684–1721)

Musicians in Pastoral Setting after Nicolas Lancret (French artist, 1690–1743)

About this Blog

Initially mankind tries to gain some control over his constantly changing & often threatening natural surroundings by creating physical spaces to meet his basic needs for shelter, food, safety, & family. Across the Earth, prehistoric man's discovery that some plants harm & others heal was the origin searching for & eventually growing life-sustaining food & early medicines, as well as creating ancient myths about people & plants. A garden became a planned space set aside for the practical cultivation of edible & medicinal plants, and/or for the artistic display, & enjoyment of decorative plants. As centuries passed, many of the "well-to-do" transformed the gardens near their personal living spaces into art hoping to project a desired image of themselves to others - their wealth, power, refinement, & beliefs.