CONTENTS 



the Italian Renaissance and Baroque villas, 39 — The style of Le 

 Notre, 42 — The Romantic landscape style, 45 — The English formal 

 style of the Tudors, 47 — The English cottage style, 49 — The New 

 England colonial style, 50 — The modern German formal style, 51 — 

 The Japanese styles, 54 — The modern American landscape style, 57 

 — Study of styles, 59 — Choice of style, 60. 



CHAPTER V 

 Landscape Characters ......... 62-75 



The physical origin of landscape characters, 62 — Characters as 

 parallel to styles, 63 — Examples of landscape characters, 64 — The 

 prairie, 64 — The barren or tundra, 65 — Sand dunes, 66 — The Se- 

 quoia grove, 66 — The Sierra mountain meadow, 67 — The bushy 

 pasture, 68 — English pastoral landscape, 69 — Design in landscape 

 characters, 70 — Landscape characters in relation to economic use and 

 maintenance, 72 — Value and preservation of characteristic scenery, 

 74 — Man's need of free landscape, 75. 



CHAPTER VI 

 /Landscape Effects .......... 76-87 



Taste in landscape effects, 76 — Variety of landscape effects, 77 



— Literary discussions of landscape effects, 77 — The " beautiful " and 

 the "picturesque," 77 — Their fundamental difference, 77 — Their 

 application in design, 78 — Examples of other effects, 79 — Sublimity, 

 79 — Desolation, 81 — Melancholy, 81 — Gayety, 82 — Mystery, 82 



— Effects from transitory conditions, 83 — Harmony and contrast in 

 effects, 83 — Effects in landscape characters, 84 — Effects in styles, 85 



— Design in effects, 86. 



CHAPTER VII 

 Landscape Composition ......... 88—129 



Composition in landscape and in painting, 88^ Order in composi- 

 tion, objective and subjective, 89 — Segregation of the composition, 90 



— Unity and attention, 90 — Attention and training, 91 — Emphasis, 

 contrast, climax, dominance, 91 — Landscape composition within the 

 visual angle, 92 — Unity of larger landscape compositions, 92 — The 

 forms of order in composition, 93 — Repetition, 94 — Harmony, 

 monotony, and variety, 94 — Sequence, 94 — Sequence of continua- 

 tion or repetition, 94 — Rhythm, 95 — Progression, 96 — Balance, 96 



— Symmetrical, 97 — Occult, 97 — -Intensification of emotion from 



