The Early Renaissance or Humanist Garden
The first in the Gardens Trust online series exploring the villa gardens of the Italian Renaissance with Katie Campbel. From 1400-1490 the Humanist gardens were inserted into empty plots around medieval castles, hunting lodges or fortified farmhouse. Though they exhibit little innovation in planting or design, these early Renaissance gardens demonstrate a new interest in nature as the enclosed, inward-looking gardens of the Middle Ages opened up to embrace the surrounding landscape. Combining pleasure with utility, the Medici villas of Trebbio, Cafaggiolo and Careggi, as well as Pope Pius’ summer palace at Pienza reconceived the garden as a place for spiritual contemplation and scholarly discourse, rather than simply for agricultural production.
Time 10:00 GMT
