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The exhibition “Garden Pleasures: The Garden in Art” at the Belvedere Palace will be enchanting art lovers from March 22 to June 24, 2007. On show will be atmospheric works by Monet, Klimt and Nolde and other portrayals of gardens spanning the Gothic, Baroque, Art Nouveau and modern periods.
The Baroque Lower Belvedere palace and its orangery will be the setting for this exhibition of some 80 artworks depicting gardens. The glorious colors of the flowers, and their arrangement in interiors and gardens give the viewer a sense of how the artist has captured nature. Lovers’ gardens of the 16th century, Canaletto’s view of Vienna from the Belvedere, Monet’s garden at Giverny and Klimt’s country garden – all these reveal how the theme has been treated in successive epochs.

Changes in garden design through the centuries bear witness to diametrically opposed approaches and philosophies, from the strictly geometrical layout of Baroque gardens to the meandering pathways of English landscape gardens and the layered structure of art nouveau gardens, in which trimmed boxwood hedges tame the natural world.

The glorious gardens of Belvedere Palace are an irresistible invitation to exhibition goers to stroll at their leisure and thus create a direct connection between art and garden design
Belvedere, Lower Belvedere and Orangery
3., Rennweg 4,
tel. +43–1–79 557–0
www.belvedere.at

March 22 to June 24, 2007
Tue-Sun 10a.m.-6p.m.
(last admission 5.30 p.m.)

Garden Pleasures: The Garden in Art at the Belvedere Palace, Vienna

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