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History of Garden Art
FIG. 488. THE LIECHTENSTEIN PALACE, VIENNA
carriages but reached from the garden side, and there is also the interesting menagerie.
The idea of a concentric arrangement was adopted from Versailles, but in this place it is
all on a smaller scale and more consistently worked out. Instead of finding a small casino
in the centre as at Versailles, the spectator stands in front of an iron grating, whence
little fan-shaped parterres spread out towards the animals' winter quarters. In 1731,
when the prince was still living, Salomon Kleiner published some very fine engravings
of views of the garden, and in the peculiar title of the work paid a personal tribute to
the warrior-hero, calling it 44 The Wonderful Home of the Incomparable Hero of our Time
in Wars and Victories; or the actual Presentation and Copy of Garden, Court, and Pleasure
Buildings, belonging to his most Serene Highness, Prince Eugenius Franciscus, Duke of
Savoy, etc." After the death of the prince in 1736, the Belvedere passed into the hands of
the imperial family. Both before and after, the garden witnessed those brilliant fetes
for which it was intended: in 1700 there was a masked fete on 17 April, such as Vienna had
never yet seen; and to accommodate six thousand dancers a great dining-hall was built
out in the garden, covered over the top with i5,oco ells of linen; on the walls and roof
there was painted a berceau of gigantic size, ornamented with flowers and festoons. The
eighteenth century had still to learn how to keep a great fete!
The neighbouring estate, laid out by Count Fondi-Mansfeld in 1694, passed into
the possession of the Schwar^enberg family in 1715, and they completed both house and
garden. A similar but somewhat simpler problem was presented here. The garden had
only to consider, in the way of buildings, the castle below, whence it climbed upward in
terraces from the fine parterre, growing ever denser and more shady with groves. Its
beauty lay in the well-marked middle axis of water: this formed two cascades with many
History of Garden Art
FIG. 488. THE LIECHTENSTEIN PALACE, VIENNA
carriages but reached from the garden side, and there is also the interesting menagerie.
The idea of a concentric arrangement was adopted from Versailles, but in this place it is
all on a smaller scale and more consistently worked out. Instead of finding a small casino
in the centre as at Versailles, the spectator stands in front of an iron grating, whence
little fan-shaped parterres spread out towards the animals' winter quarters. In 1731,
when the prince was still living, Salomon Kleiner published some very fine engravings
of views of the garden, and in the peculiar title of the work paid a personal tribute to
the warrior-hero, calling it 44 The Wonderful Home of the Incomparable Hero of our Time
in Wars and Victories; or the actual Presentation and Copy of Garden, Court, and Pleasure
Buildings, belonging to his most Serene Highness, Prince Eugenius Franciscus, Duke of
Savoy, etc." After the death of the prince in 1736, the Belvedere passed into the hands of
the imperial family. Both before and after, the garden witnessed those brilliant fetes
for which it was intended: in 1700 there was a masked fete on 17 April, such as Vienna had
never yet seen; and to accommodate six thousand dancers a great dining-hall was built
out in the garden, covered over the top with i5,oco ells of linen; on the walls and roof
there was painted a berceau of gigantic size, ornamented with flowers and festoons. The
eighteenth century had still to learn how to keep a great fete!
The neighbouring estate, laid out by Count Fondi-Mansfeld in 1694, passed into
the possession of the Schwar^enberg family in 1715, and they completed both house and
garden. A similar but somewhat simpler problem was presented here. The garden had
only to consider, in the way of buildings, the castle below, whence it climbed upward in
terraces from the fine parterre, growing ever denser and more shady with groves. Its
beauty lay in the well-marked middle axis of water: this formed two cascades with many