{"id":19707,"date":"2022-01-16T22:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19707"},"modified":"2022-01-16T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:56:20","slug":"episode-513-did-landscape-artists-of-17th-century-put-ideas-into-capability-browns-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19707","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 513 DID LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF 17TH CENTURY PUT IDEAS INTO CAPABILITY BROWN\u2019S HEAD?"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 513    DID LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF 17TH CENTURY PUT IDEAS INTO CAPABILITY BROWN\u2019S HEAD?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
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Where did Capability Brown get his landscaping ideas from?   Many places I suppose.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
One source may be the landscape paintings of 17th century artists like Poussin.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
In other words some of his ides may have not come directly from nature but rather from landscape paintings that hung in the great country houses<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Capability visited.  Just a thought.  Poussin is mentioned as influencing head gardeners in the<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
 ph.d. thesis of Ms. Greener, University of  Exeter, England.  <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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The painting below was done by the 17th century  artist Poussin.  When this painting is put side by  side<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
with an artists impression of Chatsworth landscape as changed by Capability Brown, I was struck by the similarities. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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LANDSCAPE WITH DIOGENES, 1647  by Poussin<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
(Diogenes was a Greek philosopher known for his brutal honesty)<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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CHATSWORTH LANDSCAPE, 17 TH CENTURY (Artistic impression)<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat do you think of that idea, Capability?<\/span>\u201d<\/font><\/div>\n
\u201cI would say, Alan, that it has \u2018capabilities?<\/font><\/div>\n

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ALAN<\/font><\/div>\n

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EPISODE 513    DID LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF 17TH CENTURY PUT IDEAS INTO CAPABILITY BROWN\u2019S HEAD? alan skeoch Jan. 2022 Where did Capability Brown get his landscaping ideas from?   Many places I suppose. One source may be the landscape paintings of 17th century artists like Poussin. In other words some of his ides may have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}