The Dutch classical garden and André Mollet

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Although the importance of classicism for the development of architecture in the Dutch republic during the early part of the 17th century is well known, its significance in the closely related field of landscape architecture has been overlooked. An exaggerated and unwarranted emphasis on the French contribution to the Dutch garden has obscured appreciation of an indigenous development based on the interpretation and adaptation of Vitruvian literature and closely allied with the scientific and engineering advances made in Holland during the period. Indeed that misplaced emphasis has also prevented appreciation of a Dutch contribution to the French garden, notably in the person of André Mollet. He was, I believe, greatly inspired by one of the earliest Dutch canal gardens laid out according to the classical principles of symmetry and proportion.

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