Neoclassical > Landscapes
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The Neoclassical principles of balance and symmetry were more often
found in the landscape traditions of the seventeenth century(epitomized
by the French royal garden, Versailles), and were displaced by the
new open designs of Capability Brown and his followers by the mid-eighteenth
century. Nevertheless, features such as parterre gardens, allées
(double rows of trees flanking a path or road) and the frequent use
of classical statuary and Roman-style garden buildings marked the
persistence of the Neoclassical influence in English landscape design.
Designers such as Brown and Humphrey Repton were often explicitly
imitating seventeenth-century paintings of the classical ruins of
Italy by Poussin, Claude and others in designing views and landscapes.
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