ARTH 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Petit Trianon, Germain Boffrand, Architecture Parlante
11 Mar 2016
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Following the english aestheic, picturesque and the sublime. Geing back to empiricism (connected to the scieniic revoluion, the enlightenment) Ariicial lakes, islands, meandering paths, etc. are implemented. Follies are present (one of them is let purposefully incomplete) The temple was let incomplete, each column represening an important igure, philosophes, especially rousseau who died there. Above the doorway, an inscripion in lain, who will inish me . Philosophers criicizing the status quo and asking criical quesions are seing a new course for philosophy as well as aestheics. Rousseau is reacing against contemporary society, geing back to a natural, primiive state of goodness. The garden is premised on rousseau"s idea of geing back to nature. On of the temples that is no longer there, is rusic, a precursor to the modern temple that is incomplete (that modern society can inish) Located on an ariicial island is the tomb of rousseau designed by hubert robert. Cyprus trees that surround the tomb evoke melancholy.
