Jardin anglo-chinois

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Jardin anglo-chinois (French, German English-Chinese garden, French also in the plural Les Jardins Anglo-Sinois ) describes a certain garden shape in which geometric and landscaped garden design was combined in a bosket . The Jardin anglo-chinois was a garden style widespread on the European continent in the second half of the 18th century, modeled on Chinese and English gardens .

The garden shape was created after the missionary and Franciscan Matteo Ripa brought back thirty-six copperplate engravings from the imperial summer palace in Chengde (not far from Beijing ) from his travels in China in 1724 . In Europe, people knew about the large Chinese pictures from Marco Polo's descriptions . However, the descriptions were so vague that they could not have any formative influence on the garden design. That only changed with the pictures of Ripa. Marianne Beuchert cites as evidence of this influence of these engravings that you can still find a gently curved water surface in Chiswick Park today , which is spanned by a bridge . A visually almost identical situation could be found in Jehol's park until 1981.

literature

  • Woesler, Martin: Between Exotism, Sinocentrism and Chinoiserie, Européerie . 3rd ed., Revised. and exp. New edition Bochum: European University Publishing House 2006 (Scripta Sinica, Vol. 6). ISBN 978-3-89966-107-1 / ISBN 3-89966-107-9
  • Chinoiserie: the influence of China on European art, 17th-19th centuries: exhibition; Riggisberg, May 6 - October 28, 1984 / Ed .: Alain Gruber. - Bern: Abegg Foundation Bern, 1984.
  • The end of chinoiserie: the dissolution of a phenomenon in art during the Enlightenment / Johannes Franz Hallinger. - Munich: Scaneg, cop. 1996. (Contributions to art history; Volume 66)
  • Rinaldi, Bianca Maria: The 'Chinese Garden in Good Taste'. Jesuits and Europe's Knowledge of Chinese Flora and Art of the Garden in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-89975-041-6 .