. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . European and Japanese Gardens. PLAN OF THE PARK OF MARLY poetry, and of Le Notre in gardening. Of vvliat immense inter-est it would be to show how this principle holds through thehistory of all the arts,—that he is greatest who can take whatother men have done and better it, perfect it,—not he who pre-sumptuously shatters traditions, essaying, as it were, what noone has ever succeeded in doing, anew and alone to constructan art out of his own inner consciousness. Andre Le Notre was born at Paris in 16
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . European and Japanese Gardens. PLAN OF THE PARK OF MARLY poetry, and of Le Notre in gardening. Of vvliat immense inter-est it would be to show how this principle holds through thehistory of all the arts,—that he is greatest who can take whatother men have done and better it, perfect it,—not he who pre-sumptuously shatters traditions, essaying, as it were, what noone has ever succeeded in doing, anew and alone to constructan art out of his own inner consciousness. Andre Le Notre was born at Paris in 1613. He was theson of the Kings suvintendant, as his title was: whatwould correspond, I suppose, in our time and tongue, toDirector of Works,—head gardener and outside man. Thefather was anxious to have his son become a painter, though inthose days the natural course of events was for a mans son tofollow in his fathers footsteps. We are forced to draw theconclusion that the surititendant had found his calling nonetoo much like the beds of roses his business was to cultivate,since he went so far out of his way to i
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