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PROJECT
To discover the characteristics of a formal garden through the estate of Beloeil.
OBJECTIVES
To perceive space and the relation between the palace and its surroundings.
To develop precision.
To appeal to imagination.
SKILLS.
Being able to make a list of the components of a formal garden.
Finding one’s bearing and situating oneself in space.
Manipulating and assembling geometrical shapes to create the plan of a classical garden.
MATERIALS
Slides.
Plans of gardens.
Worksheets.
Iconographic documentation.
Coloured papers, gouache, paintbrushes, pencils…
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gromort (Georges), L’art des jardins, Paris, 1983.
Groote (Christine de), Le Guide des Jardins de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1997.
Pechere (René), Parcs et jardins de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1987.
Ligne (Prince Charles-Joseph de), Coup d’Oeil at Beloeil and a Great Number of European Gardens, Berkeley, 1991.
REFERENCES
The gardens of Beloeil, Belgium
PROCEDURES
Visit the park with the help of a plan : find one’s way within the estate spot the main characteristics of a formal garden : shape of the flower beds, ponds, type of vegetation, symmetry…
Thanks to shapes cut out from coloured papers, Create the plan of a formal garden, following the example of Beloeil and the patterns of the iconographic documents. Manipulate the components before fixing them.
FOLLOW UP WORK
From the projection of slides, and the plan of a garden, trying to retrace the different steps in the lay out of the garden.
ASSESSMENT
It will check the pupil’s ability to :
Recognize the characteristics of the classical formal garden.
Create, with various components, various plan of gardens.
Colombe Janssens, student in history of the Arts, Catholic University of Louvain , Louvain -la-Neuve Belgium