Italia Reggia di Caserta 2 The English Garden

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REGGIA DI CASERTA
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The English Garden
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The Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta)
is a former royal residence constructed for the
Bourbon kings of Naples
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The English Garden has a different design to the
rest of the grounds. It was built in the 1780s,
fuelled by the desires of Ferdinands wife Maria
Carolina (who invested his personal fortune in
this building).  Maria Carolina, the sister of
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, wanted to
have a romantic English garden, which followed
a less formal style and featured grottos,
groves, fake ruins and lots of flowers
It seems that in reality it was lord Hamilton,
"extraordinary envoy of her Britannic majesty" to
the Neapolitan court, to suggest the realisation
of the garden, to the queen. He appealed to the
rivalry with the queen's sister, Maria Antoinette
queen of France, who had demanded a garden at the
Petit Trianon of Versailles.
The queen called the botanist Andrew Graefer,
from England, who was one of the most famous
gardeners of the kingdom
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The garden is charac-terized by the apparent
disorder natural plants (many rare species and,
in any case, non-native), streams, ponds, ruins
in the fashion nascent derived from recent
excavations at Pompeii.
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Dasylirion longissimum (Mexican grass tree)
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Dasylirion longissimum (Mexican grass tree)
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Created at the instigation of Queen Maria
Carolina, it is considered to be the first
landscape garden in Italy
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The first variety of camellia to arrive in Europe
was the Japonica Alba Plena. These plants were
introduced into Great Britain in around 1730,
arriving in Italy later, towards the end of the
1700s. The Royal Palace of Caserta was the first
location to feature the plant, in its
English-style garden
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Camellia
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Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)
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The Sago Palm (Cycas Revoluta) 
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Taxus baccata
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Lebanon cedar (Cedrus libani)
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Lebanon cedar (Cedrus libani)
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Bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii)
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The English Garden covers an area of 24 hectares.
It became the Royal Botanical Garden of Caserta
during the nineteenth century, and is home to
exceptional examples of cinnamomum camphora,
taxus baccata or cedrus libani 
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Liriodendron tulipifera (known as the tulip tree,
tulipwood, tulip poplar, whitewood or
yellow-poplar)
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Cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis / Italian
Cypress or Pencil Cypress
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Fountain of the shepherd playing the flute
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Venus' Baths in English Gardens Sculptor Tommaso
Solari (1762)
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Venus' Baths Sculptor Tommaso Solari (1762)
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Full of romantic influence, the cryptoporticus is
a false circular nynphaeum with tufa walls and
large niches decorated with stucco and roman opus
reticolatum, containing eleven statues from
Pompei and from the Farnese collection, of which
are on site from before 1792. The status of
"ancient ruins" is further underscored by the
presence of large cracks in time, of course
artifacts.  
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The archaeological excavations which Charles
promoted at Herculaneum and Pompeii created a
wide interest for the ancient ruins them-selves,
in addition to leading to the discovery of many
works of art The English Garden was designed in
the late XVIIIth century by John Graeffer for
Queen Maria Carolina. In line with the fashion
of the time a number of "follies" decorated it
and copies of ancient statues and reliefs were
placed here and there
Statues of the Cryptoporticus
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The cryptoporticus
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The cascade
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Yew (taxus baccata)
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Tempietto, a circular temple
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Tempietto
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The nymph lake, a lake with two islands. The more
there are the fake ruins of a temple and a small
building for the housing of the swans
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Jacob Philipp Hackert (17371807) Landscape with
the Palace at Caserta with the Vesuvius (View of
the English Garden of Caserta),
1793 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Hackert painted the splendid gardens around the
royal palace at Caserta on various occasions
Jacob Philipp Hackert (17371807) Landscape with
Motifs of the English Garden in Caserta Hamburg
Hamburger Kunsthalle
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Jacob Philipp Hackert (17371807) River
Landscape with Elements of the English Garden at
Caserta National Trust, Attingham Park, UK
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Jacob Philipp Hackert (17371807) View of
Caserta The State Hermitage Museum  Saint
Petersburg
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Gabriela Cristescu
Internet All  copyrights  belong to their
 respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2018
Sound Emma Shapplin - Spente Le
Stelle Miserere, Venere