On meeting Hercules in Stourhead garden

• Autores: Michael Charlesworth
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 9, Nº 2, 1989, págs. 71-75
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The iconography of Stourhead is still far from being incontrovertibly established, despite the work of Kenneth Woodbridge on this subject. His iconographic theory concentrates on the Aeneid, finding, with the help of paintings by Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa, parallels between the garden features and parts of Virgil's epic poem, in an elaborate allegory. This view has recently been questioned, first by James Turner, and more searchingly by Malcolm Kelsall. This questioning has cast doubt over Woodbridge's initial interpretation.