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 



