Classic Garden - Attr to Louis de Caullery 1555-1622

1610 Louis de Caullery (Flemish artist, b 1582-a 1621) A Classic Garden

Louis de Caullery (Dutch-Flemish artist, 1555-1622) also known as Luis de Koller, Luis de Kaulleri, Louis de Coulery, specialized in genre, allegory, architecture, & landscape painting.  Like many Flemish artists of the period, he had traveled to & worked in Italy. A circle of like-minded artists gathered around him in Antwerp, painting scenes of banquets, balls, carnivals, & other celebrations often in gardens. The architecture & the parterres of the gardens are precisely drawn, often in skillfully telescoped perspective.

Birds, Men & Women in Gardens

 Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Seasons - Spring

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

1664 View of Palazzo Barberini 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. 

Men & Women in Gardens

  Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Elements - Air

Real & Imaginary Garden Celebrations - Attr to Louis de Caullery 1555-1622

Attributed to Louis de Caullery (Dutch-Flemish artist, 1555-1622) A Celebration of Love in the Garden of the Villa Medici

Louis de Caullery (Dutch-Flemish artist, 1555-1622) also known as Luis de Koller, Luis de Kaulleri, Louis de Coulery, specialized in genre, allegory, architecture, & landscape painting.  Like many Flemish artists of the period, he had traveled to & worked in Italy. A circle of like-minded artists gathered around him in Antwerp, painting scenes of banquets, balls, carnivals, & other celebrations often in gardens. The architecture & the parterres of the gardens are precisely drawn, often in skillfully telescoped perspective.

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

1664 View of Palazzo Barberini 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.

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

1664 View of Merseburg Castle, 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 Grand Tour of Towns & Landscapes - Görlitz in Saxony, Germany.

Georg Braun (1541-1622) & Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590) German topo-geographers. 1575 City of Görlitz in Saxony, Germany.

These images of British, European, & Middle Eastern towns come from the century BEFORE The Grand Tour became a popular educational trip for the rich & the intellectually curious of Britain & the European continent.  The custom flourished from about 1660, until the advent of wide-spread railroad travel in the 1840s, when travel became accessible to a larger spectrum of the public. Similar trips across the Atlantic were undertaken from the 2nd half of the 18C, by some affluent South & North Americans.

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

1664 View of Grotto with fountain garden of the castle Tanlay, 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. 

17Cs Gardens in Portraits of Children from Europe

Hendrick Berckman (Dutch artist, 1629-1679) Portrait of a Boy and his Dog

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

1664 View of Gazebo with fountain, 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.

17C Gardens in Portraits of Children from Europe

 1650 Unknown artist Boy with Coral

Vredenburg Castle 1529

Willem Cornelisz.van Swanenburgh (b 1611-  in Utrecht). Castle Vredenburg 1529 Charles V where a form of early golf called beugelen, 'kolven door den beugel' was played in Utrecht

Vredenburg or Vredeborch was a 16C castle built by Habsburg emperor Charles V in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. When the Holy Roman Empire annexed Utrecht in 1528, Emperor Charles V immediately ordered the construction of a castle in Utrecht, to protect his new territory from invasion & to try to retain control over the city's rather independent population. Construction was begun in 1529 and completed in 1532.  After the Pacification of Ghent was signed on November 8, 1576, the Eighty Years' War broke out; and the castle's Spanish garrison was besieged by the Dutch rebels, as fighting broke out between the Spanish & Dutch. The garrison abandoned the castle in 1577, & the citizens of Utrecht demanded, that the castle be demolished to prevent the Spanish or other foreign power from dominating their city again. The citizens demolished the castle brick by brick until 1581.  Some remains of the castle are still visible on what is now Vredenburg square in Utrecht.

Etching by Coenraad Decker in 1656 depicting the castle Vredenburg in Utrecht (The Netherlands) showing the castle around 1540

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

1664 View  of the Gothaer Castle with ground plans of the pleasure garden. 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. 

1610 Courtiers Strolling & Dancing in a garden by Hieronymus Francken the Elder (c 1540–1610)

1610 Courtiers strolling in a garden by  Flemish painter Hieronymus Francken I or Hieronymus Francken the Elder (c 1540–1610).  After training in Antwerp, he was mainly active in France, where he became court painter at the French court. His compositions with elegant groups of dancing figures, musicians and courtiers anticipate the development of this genre in the 17C.