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  • 10 - Ruins in the Landscape Garden

  • Roland Mayer, King's College London
  • Book:
    The Ruins of Rome
    Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    06 February 2025, pp 212-240

  • Summary

    Such was the aesthetic appeal of a Roman ruin that English grand tourists began to decorate their parkland back home, now landscaped in a sort of ‘faux-naturalism’, with sham ruins. The eighteenth-century fashion for the English garden swept over continental Europe, and many gardens, surprisingly even in Rome itself, have sham Roman ruins after the English fashion. The fashion for sham ‘Roman’ ruins continued into the twentieth century and was extended to the United States and Japan.