The aesthetic character of the garden is connected especially to two elements: the choice of plant species with selection of the best specimens and the distribution of crops according to an initial design that, including the choice of the site, the exposure or the ease of irrigation, represents the time typically architectural or design.
In this planning the crops are distributed so that the garden, in all seasons, offers a pleasant aspect and flourishing, presenting itself as a nature in small, according to the idea that the beautiful can be isolated and highlighted by man by means of a choice between the shapes most beautiful present in nature.
It is precisely the living element, the plants conveniently choices, which make the garden a work of art completely different from the others: the durability, stability, the effect, quality characteristics of the architecture, painting, sculpture are absent from the art of the gardens, subject to constant change.
Only the buildings and stone ornaments (statues, fountains, stairs and terraces) are immutabili: the shape of the vegetation expressed and desired by artist, subject and the growth that the seasonal changes, is not always evident.
Indeed, provocatively, one might say that the historical gardens no longer exist, as they saw their designers, clients, travelers or chronicler of that time. Many plants have died and those that survive have now an image and a role that could not have in the past.
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It is precisely the living element, the plants conveniently choices, which make the garden a work of art completely different from the others: the durability, stability, the effect, quality characteristics of the architecture, painting, sculpture are absent from the art of the gardens, subject to constant change.
Only the buildings and stone ornaments (statues, fountains, stairs and terraces) are immutabili: the shape of the vegetation expressed and desired by artist, subject and the growth that the seasonal changes, is not always evident.
Indeed, provocatively, one might say that the historical gardens no longer exist, as they saw their designers, clients, travelers or chronicler of that time. Many plants have died and those that survive have now an image and a role that could not have in the past.