{"title":"‘Impressions so alien’: the afterlives of the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo","authors":"Thalia Allington-Wood","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2021.1883936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.1883936","url":null,"abstract":"The history of a garden is a narrative constructed on the basis of factual evidence, but also shaped by shifting ideological pressures and historical circumstances over the long durée of its existence. The study of the reception or afterlife of a particular garden allows us to see how it changed over time, was reformulated by its visitors, and how these changes have influenced its subsequent interpretations. Despite this widely shared understanding, the afterlife of the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo has received little critical attention, though its complex historiography was inseparably tied to political and social shifts in twentieth-century Italy. The traditional histories of the Sacro Bosco suggest that in the early seventeenth century this garden had fallen into disrepair and obscurity until it was suddenly ‘rediscovered’ after World War II. In less than a decade, between the late 1940s and mid-1950s, Bomarzo became the subject of an unprecedented amount of public and scholarly attention, being caught on camera and featured on screen, publicized in newspapers and discussed in academic journals. From 1955 onwards, it also prominently entered the art historical discourse. This article scrutinizes and corrects this picture by taking a fresh look both at the early twentieth-century reception and historiography of the Sacro Bosco and various writings and media devoted to it in post-war Italy. In doing so, it reveals the origins and production of dominant scholarly narratives that continue to influence our understanding of Bomarzo, their relationship with political pressures and ideological agendas of the time, and their long-lasting effects on the garden’s image in both popular culture and specialist literature. The point of departure for this analysis is the concept of the giardino all’italiana fostered by Mussolini’s fascist regime, from which I move to the discussion of contrasting interpretative frameworks – Surrealist art, Neorealist cinema and the notion of Mannerism as an ‘anti-classical’ style – mobilized in post-war Italy to explain this intriguing site. In addition, this article draws on previously unpublished evidence – such as personal photographs, films and various writings – that shed new light on such debated questions as the extent to which the Sacro Bosco was known to early twentieth-century visitors and its place in the history of Italian gardens and sculpture. By bringing together these divergent approaches, media and contexts that informed the afterlife of Bomarzo, this article’s aim is to launch a critical reevaluation of the early historiography of this site. This task, as the following analysis shows, only becomes feasible if we acknowledge various, often poorly known, ways in which the post-war ‘rediscovery’ of the Sacro Bosco was intimately tied to the social and political history of twentieth-century Italy.","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"41 1","pages":"155 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2021.1883936","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46831056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New information on King Philip II garden at the Casa del Campo in Madrid","authors":"L. Ramón-Laca, José Ramón Menéndez de Luarca","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2021.1874143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.1874143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"41 1","pages":"22 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2021.1874143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46755652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Time and distance in the Bourbon landscape: the strategic illogicality of the gardens of Versailles”","authors":"Elizabeth Hyde","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2021.1865744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.1865744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"41 1","pages":"3 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2021.1865744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45009848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"Elizabeth Hyde","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2021.1862574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.1862574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2021.1862574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45968009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English orchards in history: production, aesthetics and myth","authors":"T. Williamson","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1759985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1759985","url":null,"abstract":"Until comparatively recently, orchards were a common sight throughout England, a familiar part of the landscape. Some were associated with farmhouses and were filled with tall, spreading trees. Oth...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"197 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1759985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43554236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between heritage and the contemporary. Three paradoxes of the Minimes barracks, Paris","authors":"P. Coignet, Alice Hallynck","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1753960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1753960","url":null,"abstract":"A few meters from Place des Vosges, the city of Paris launched a project in 2016 to rehabilitate a gendarmerie barracks as social housing and a space open to the public. The Paris-based Office of L...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"353 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1753960","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45585192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meanings in landscape architecture: do the means fulfil the aims?","authors":"Bernard St-Denis","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1810484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1810484","url":null,"abstract":"The early 1980s saw professional and academic circles in North America drawn into a re-examination of the artistic legitimacy of landscape architecture practices. In his article ‘Is It Art?’ 1 Step...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"238 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1810484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45454959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘usurping sense’: site, sight, space, and meaning in John Denham’s ‘Cooper’s Hill’","authors":"Michael Leslie","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1723951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1723951","url":null,"abstract":"John Denham’s Cooper’s Hill is self-evidently a poem concerned with vision and space, given that it originates in the view over the Thames valley from a vantage point above the Egham and Runnymead ...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"278 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1723951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43404063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Olmsted’s pencil sharpener","authors":"E. Eigen","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1784603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1784603","url":null,"abstract":"The documentary history of Olmsted, Jr’s search for a patent (number 1,070,284) unfolds in Job File 2919 of the Olmsted Associates records, housed at the Library of Congress and accessible digitall...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"322 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1784603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43081583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The oak grove as a place of commemoration: ritual and landscape","authors":"Nurit Lissovsky","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1759972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1759972","url":null,"abstract":"The Road to Self, to the Center of Being […] is basically a ritual, or ritual of the transition from the secular to the sacred; […] from the transient and the illusory to the reality and eternity, ...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"263 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1759972","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47951636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}