Symposium on Social Reception of Baroque Gardens
May 11-12, 2001
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Program
Friday, May 11th
8:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee on the Terrace
9:00 Welcome by Edward L. Keenan, Director of Dumbarton Oaks
Introduction by Michel Conan, Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture
8:30 a.m Registration and Coffee on the Terrace
9:00 Welcome by Edward L. Keenan, Director of Dumbarton Oaks
Introduction by Michel Conan, Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture
Morning Session: Two Early Examples of Baroque Garden Politics
Chair: James Wescoat (University of Colorado)
9:40 Stephen West (University of California, Berkeley)
Baroque Politics in the Imperial Song Gardens at Kaifeng and Their Dilemmas
Break (20 minutes)
11:00 Tracy Ehrlich (Colgate University)
Pastoral Landscape and Social Politics in Baroque Rome
12:00 p.m. Lunch in the Gardens (by subscription)
Afternoon Session: Reception and Appropriation of Baroque Garden Politics in Europe
Chair: Michael Leslie (Rhodes College)
2:00 Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks)
Playfulness and Imagination in French Baroque Gardens Before 1661
3:00 Magnus Olausson (National Museum of Stockholm)
The Aesthetic & Social Reception and Development of the Baroque Garden in Sweden
Break (20 minutes)
4:20 Roland Puppe
Saxon Baroque Gardens (1694-1733): Nature's Entertainment Palaces
5:20 Reception
Saturday, May 12th
8:30 a.m. Coffee on the Terrace
Morning Session: Visitor and Tourist Responses to Baroque Gardens
Chair: Richard Etlin (University of Maryland)
9:00 Lisa Heer (Boise State University)
Copies in the Garden: Guido Reni's Aurora in England
10:00 Lance Neckar (University of Minnesota)
Polity and Politeness at Castle Howard: Awed and Angry Visitors in a Baroque Landscape Architecture
Break (20 minutes)
11:20 Margherita Azzi Visentini (Politecnico di Milano)
The Borromean Islands on the Lago Maggiore: Their History and Appreciation from the 16th to the Early 20th Century
12:20 p.m. Lunch in the Gardens (by subscription)
Afternoon Session: Gardening: Innovations and Print Communication
Chair: Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks)
2:00 Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (Università di Pisa)
Gardens of Knowledge and the "Republique des Gens de Lettre"
3:05 Erik A. de Jong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Of Plants and Gardeners, Prints and Statues: Reception and Exchange in Northern European Garden Culture
4:10 Concluding Remarks
4:30 End of Symposium