THE RENAISSANCE GARDEN AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS

This article looks at the contradictory essence of the Renaissancegarden, which is reflected in the dialogue of the garden’s formand content, and which is in constant change. While the gardenof the Quattrocento with its formal language of rigid geometricrules stimulates free thought and the emotional world, remaininga modest background itself, the garden of the Cinquecento dictatesthe direction of thought and produces concrete frames for it. The thought of the Early Renaissance, boundlessly freewheeling in theworld of fantasy, is increasingly tied to the garden’s form. The gentleemotion of the inner world is suffocated by the intruders from theouter world and the garden that carried the free thought of EarlyRenaissance becomes an area of restraint.