THE RENAISSANCE GARDEN AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS

Abstract

This article looks at the contradictory essence of the Renaissance
garden, which is reflected in the dialogue of the garden’s form
and content, and which is in constant change. While the garden
of the Quattrocento with its formal language of rigid geometric
rules stimulates free thought and the emotional world, remaining
a modest background itself, the garden of the Cinquecento dictates
the direction of thought and produces concrete frames for it. The

thought of the Early Renaissance, boundlessly freewheeling in the
world of fantasy, is increasingly tied to the garden’s form. The gentle
emotion of the inner world is suffocated by the intruders from the
outer world and the garden that carried the free thought of Early
Renaissance becomes an area of restraint.