368 LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION 



Andre, Edouard. 



L'Art des Jardins, 1879. 



Principes Generaux de la Composition des Jardins. Ch. VI, especially p. 



120-136. illus. 

 Vues et Percees. In Ch. X, p. 321-345. illus. 

 Caparn, Harold A. 



Composition in Landscape Art. In Garden and Forest, Dec. 20, 1893, v. 6, p. 522- 



523- 

 Discusses the lessons of landscape paintings and the methods of landscape painters for the landscape 

 designer. 



GiRARDiN, Rene Louis, Marquis de. 



De la Composition du Paysage ; ou des moyens d'embellir la nature autour des 

 habitations. Paris, Delaquette, 1771. (Translated into English as: Jn Essay 

 on Landscape, London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1783. 160 pages. Also later 

 French editions and an Italian translation.) 

 Composition of the landscape in accordance with ideas drawn from the art of landscape painting, 

 which M. de Girardin applied in his estate of Ermenonville. 



Jones, Beatrix. 



The Garden as a Picture. In Scribner's Magazine, July 1907, v. 42, p. 2-1 1. 

 Koch, Hugo. 



Der optische Maszstab in der Gartenkunst. In Gartenkunst, Feb. and Apr. 1915, 

 V. 17, p. 17-18 and 52-55. 



Discusses the size and location of objects in landscape composition in relation to the points of view 

 from which they are to be seen. 



Marcus, Hugo. 



Die ornamentale Schonheit der Landschaft und der Natur : als Beitrag zu einer 

 allegemeinen Asthetik der Landschaft und der Natur. Miinchen, R. Piper & Co., 

 1912. 151 pages, illus. 



Especially interesting on the composition of landscape forms and on the modes of order in landscape 



composition. 



Price, Sir Uvedale. 



An Essay on the Picturesque. (See under Theory.) 



Repton, Humphrey. 



The Affinity betwixt Painting and Gardening. In his Sketches and Hints on 

 Landscape Gardening, part of Ch. VII. (Ch. VIII in Nolen edition.) 



