1580s Buildings & gardens by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)

1580s Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607) Palace Architecture with Strollers. Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). His mannerist plates of landscape & garden designs became very influential and beneficial to garden architects throughout Europe. These garden designs focus on trellises and hedges creating intricate patterns. These features became popular in small-scale gardens in the Netherlands in the 17C.

1580s Buildings & gardens by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)

1580s Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)  Buildings and gardens.  Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). His mannerist plates of landscape & garden designs became very influential and beneficial to garden architects throughout Europe. These garden designs focus on trellises and hedges creating intricate patterns. These features became popular in small-scale gardens in the Netherlands in the 17C.

1580s Buildings & gardens by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)

1580s b Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)  Labyrinth, Philips Galle, c. 1587.  Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). His mannerist plates of landscape & garden designs became very influential and beneficial to garden architects throughout Europe. These garden designs focus on trellises and hedges creating intricate patterns. These features became popular in small-scale gardens in the Netherlands in the 17C.

1580s Buildings & gardens by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)

1580s b Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)  Garden, from Hortum Viridariorumque Elegantes et Mumultiplicis Formae, published c.1583.  Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). His mannerist plates of landscape & garden designs became very influential and beneficial to garden architects throughout Europe. These garden designs focus on trellises and hedges creating intricate patterns. These features became popular in small-scale gardens in the Netherlands in the 17C.

1570s Buildings & gardens by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607)

1570s Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-c 1607) Design for an Ornamental Garden, 1576. Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). His mannerist plates of landscape & garden designs became very influential and beneficial to garden architects throughout Europe. These garden designs focus on trellises and hedges creating intricate patterns. These features became popular in small-scale gardens in the Netherlands in the 17C. 

1500s Italian Garden Attributed to Peter Candid (c. 1548–1628)

1500s Flowers for the Garden attributed to Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido & in Bavaria as Peter Candid (c. 1548–1628) was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter, tapestry designer, & draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria. He was an important artist at the Medici court in Florence & at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich. Peter Candid was an extremely versatile artist who was not only a painter but also a designer of tapestries, prints and sculptures. His pictorial work ranges from religious & history paintings, portraits, mythological scenes, & allegories.

Arriving at a Garden by Water attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato or Benedetto Caliari (1538-1598) A View of a Villa Galleria Giorgio Franchetti Treviso.  Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints. 

16C Flemish workers preparing Gardens

 1622-34 Pieter Bruegel the Younger (Flemish artist, 1564/1565-1636)  Spring

Buildings & Gardens by Georg Andreas Böckler (c 1617-1687)

1664 View of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, with ground plans of the pleasure gardens. Georg Andreas Böckler’s (c 1617-1687) Architectura Curiosa Nova.  Georg Andreas Böckler was a German architect and engineer who wrote Architectura Curiosa Nova. Born in Cronheim, he was an architect in the city of Nuremberg and specialized in hydraulic architecture. Architectura Curiosa Nova was his most important work. It is mainly a book on theory and application of hydrodynamics for fountains, water-jets, garden fountains, and well heads with many designs for free-standing fountains. It also includes designs for grottoes and garden pavilions. 

16C Flemish workers preparing Gardens

 Jacob Grimmer (Flemish artist, 1525-1590) Spring Gardens

Relaxing small Garden attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

After Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato Concerto Campestre.   Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints. 

Garden Entertaining attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato Concert in a Villa Garden.  Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints. The background of this painting shows an extesive but intimate formal garden with statues. 

Garden Entertaining attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato Banquet in a Formal Garden.   Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints. 

Garden Entertaining attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato Dives and Lazarus.  Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints. 

Entertaining in a Garden attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, called Ludovico Pozzoserrato (1550-1605)

Banquet in a Formal Palace Garden by Lodewijk Toeput (1550-1605) called Lodovico Pozzoserrato.  Lodewijk Toeput, called il Pozzoserrato (c 1550-1603-05) was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy. In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos, a leading history painter who had studied in Italy.  He is mainly known for his canvases and frescoes of landscapes and formal gardens with banquets and music-making groups.  Toeput painted various elegant gardens with figures engaging in courtly love or concerts. Many of his garden scenes were likely inspired by contemporary Flemish prints.