ENVI 216
The Landscape of Allusion: Gardens and Landscape Design to c. 1800 Fall 2013
Division I
Cross-listed ARTH 214
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This lecture course investigates how humans have shaped and interpreted nature through a study of gardens, architecture, and painting from antiquity to the nineteenth century, with a focus on Europe and the early modern period. It traces the persistence of the classical tradition in European landscape design and also addresses to a lesser extent the Islamic world and America. Approaching landscape and the garden as expressive media, we examine the social and intellectual contexts of their design and themes such as the sacralization of landscape, its use as an instrument of power, and the invention of landscape as an idea.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 2001
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one short paper, one 6-8-page paper, midterm and final exams, and a field trip to a local historic garden
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Art majors, Environmental Studies majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 216 Division I ARTH 214 Division I
Attributes: ARTH pre-1800 Courses
ENVP SC-B Group Electives

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