Baroque Landscape Design on the Saxe-Lauenburg manors 1635–1740
Author:
Michal Vokurka
Year of publication:
2022
Publisher:
Academia / Historický ústav
ISBN:
978-80-200-3306-2
During the 17th and 18th century, the aristocracy in the Bohemian lands were the dominant social class. Landscaping served as one means of their representation, and for reproducing their social status, presenting them at a political and economic-administrative (good farmer and administrator) level, and also at a religious level (support for Catholicism). It was not only through architecture, such as residences, farmyards, granaries and churches, but also through establishing and maintaining fishponds, orchards, vineyards, woods and sheepfolds and especially the mutual spatial relations between these elements that aristocrats were able to contribute towards the appearance of the cultural landscape in a fundamental manner. In this, it was not just the aristocracy themselves, but in particular their subjects, who were the addressees of aristocratic communication through landscaping.
