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Spanish Gardens R. KH \(c SPANISH GARDEN S THEIR HISTORY TYPES AND FEATURES By C. M. VILLI ERS-STUART Author of “Gardens of the Great Mughals” T f LONDON B. T. BATSFORD, LTD. 94 HIGH HOLBORN First Published 1929 Made and Printed in Great Britain for the Publishers, Press, W.9 B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London, by The Westminster To P. V.-S. b PREFACE T is just fifteen years since I first began to study Spanish gardens. My interest was aroused through a study of I Indian water-gardens, for I found that the two subjects supplement each other. To understand the structural pur- pose and charm of the irrigated garden, it is necessary to see both the plan and the planting intact. This is by no means a simple undertaking. In modern times these two features have become widely separated. The whole width of what was once the Moslem Empire lies between the complete plan in the East and the planting in the West, between the great architectural lay-out of gardens such as the Kashmir Shahlimar Bagh and the Taj Mahal at Agra and the tra- ditional planting of the Generalife at Granada and the Alcazar at Seville. Each country has managed to retain one aspect of the Moslem Paradise Garden. In India the archi- tectural shell survives, but the wars and unsettled conditions of the eighteenth century, and contact with the English romantic taste in the nineteenth, have largely destroyed traditional gardening. In Spain the great gardens of the Arab Kalifs have disappeared, but their system of planting remains almost untouched. As M. Fouquier points out in Des Divers Styles de Jardins, “ Espagne est actuellement le seul pays du monde ou Ton retrouve de nos jours des jardins du treizieme siecle—tels qu’ils one ete cree.” Early Moorish and Hispano-Moorish gardens like the Generalife and the Alcazar are not the only expression of traditional Spanish gardening. The seventeenth and eigh- vii PREFACE examples; and teenth centuries can show many typical Gomis and gardens such as Cuzco, El Retiro, Raxa, Casa more El Laberinto, being private gardens, are perhaps roy al characteristically Spanish than the better-known pleasure-grounds of Aranjuez and La Granja. and In Spain, as in other southern countries, house looked garden are closely interlinked. They must always be “ (house and at as one composition. The word carmen of meaning garden), in use in Granada, has the same shade which in- as the Oriental word “ bagh.” The Roman villa, translated by the cluded park and farm, is more correctly term “ quinta.” Spanish No book has been published in England on appeared in gardens, but two dealing with the subject have Byne s very America and one in France. Mr. and Mrs. gardens and patios interesting work is confined to Andalucian contains more and those of Majorca. Miss Nichol’s book gardens in its general information and includes Portuguese of the five princi- scope. M. Gromort makes a special study great force and point pal royal gardens, and he writes wdth unique relation of on the subject of garden design. But the has not Spanish gardens to garden-craft in East and West yet, I think, been fully brought out. and My thanks are due to those kind friends in Spain England who have helped me in my present endeavour. I Real must particularly thank the President of the Comisario Spain, the Marques de la del Tourismo y Cultura Artistica of power; the Vega Inclan, who gave me every assistance in his Duquessa de Parcent who helped me at Ronda; Mr. and Mrs. Temple, Professor de los Rios and Mr. Davenhill at Condessa Granada; Senor Don Juan y Diaz at Seville; the and de Valle de Canet, Conde de Figols, Mr. Norman King Mademoiselle Marie Lack at Barcelona; Mrs. Byne, Senora Doha Mercedes Chacon de Bonsoms and Senor Don vm PREFACE Faustio Morell in the Island of Majorca; and the Conde and Condessa de Albiz at La Granja. To the Editor of the Edinburgh Review I am indebted for permission to incor- porate part of two articles of mine dealing with Spanish gardening, and I have to thank Miss Ursula Holding for the black-and-white drawings made from my photographs, and Mr. Tristam Ellis, for placing at my disposal his copy of Les Helices de I'Espagne from which several illustrations have been reproduced in the text. The plan on p. 29 is by the late H. Inigo Triggs, and appeared in his Garden Craft in Europe. The majority of the photographs used in this book were taken by myself, but of the remainder I am indebted to Mrs. Ness for those on Plates vii, ix; to Mr. A. F. Calvert, sub- for that on Plate xi; and Plate lxxxv to Lady Scott. The are by jects on Plates viii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xxix, xxx, xxxix those on Plates xviii, xxii, Mr. Herbert Felton, F.R.P.S. ; and xxxv, xxxviii, xli, xlii by Senor Mas of Barcelona; Firma Plates xliv and xlv by Senor Trujol. I am indebted to Co., Ltd,., Diederiche of Jena and Messrs. J. M. Dent & Gothein’s for the line illustration on p. 75, reproduced from are also due to the A History of Garden Art. My thanks on Trustees of the British Museum for the reproductions Plates ii and iii. Constance Mary Villiers-Stuart. Beachamwell Hall, Norfolk. March 1929. ix . SHORT LIST OF BOOKS ON SPANISH GARDENS Le Livre de 1 ' Agriculture d.'Ibn-al-Avoam Circa 1 3th century, Traduit de l’arabe par J. Clement-Mullet. Published 1864. Les Delices de TEspagne. Juan Alvarez de Colmenar. Pub- lished 1715. Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de I'Espagne. Comte Alex- andre Laborde. Published 1812. The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth , Eady Holland. Edited by the Earl of Ilchester. Published 1910. Jardines de Espana. Santiago Rusinol. Barcelona. Published I 9 I 4- Garden Craft in Europe. H. Inigo Triggs, F.R.I.B.A. London. Published 1913. Des Divers Styles de Jardins. M. Fouquier and A. Duchene. Paris. Published 19x4. Spanish Gardens and Patios. M. and A. Byne. New York. Published 1924. Spanish and Portuguese Gardens. R. S. Nichols. Boston. Published 1924. Jardins d'Espagne. Georges Gromort. Paris. Published 1926. GLOSSARY OF SPANISH TERMS USED IN THE BOOK Alameda public promenade, Alcazar citadel. Azul azure, purple iris. Azulejos tiles. Carmen house-and-garden (Granada). Comedor dining-room. Cortijo country-place (Andalucia). Cueva cave-dwelling. Glorieta rondel, round pavilion. Huerta orchard. Mirador roof-terrace. Reja iron grille, Sala saloon. Secano unirrigated ground. Sierra mountain-chain Son estate (Balearics). Torre semi-fortified manor-house (Catalonia). Vega irrigated valley. Verja railing (round a pool or reservoir), Zaguan entrance-hall. xi CONTENTS page Chap. V Dedication vii Preface X Short List of Books on Spanish Gardens xi Glossary of Spanish Terms used in this Book i i Warp and Woof 7 ii The Mecca of the West 16 in Granada: In the Alhambra 2 IV Granada: The Generalife 5 V Granada Carmens 35 VI The Alcazar 44 56 VII Andalucian Patios 66 VIII A Palace of Kings 7i IX Cloister Links X Majorca: Moorish Sites 84 “ ” XI Majorca: Son Gardens 95 i°5 XII Round Madrid 112 XIII La Granja 121 XIV In Catalonia XV Some Recent Garden History 130 Index i37 xii Chapter I WARP AND WOOF The Loom of Destiny is set. And may the shuttle say What strands shall form the Carpet of Desire? Mixed strands, from every land a ray Shall weave the Beauty to which all aspire. Eastern saying. O European country in the past has undergone such constant change as Spain. In none has there been such a welter ofconflicting civilizations. Sailors N imperial from Syria and Crete, soldiers from Carthage and Rome, invaders from the North, conquerors from the South, each in turn swept over the land. Capitals and centres of culture replaced one another in bewildering succession; Iberian Elche, Roman Merida, Toledo of the Visigoths, Arab Cordova, Moorish Granada, each had their day before the final Christian victory and the rise of Madrid. All these racial contacts have set their mark on the Spanish house and garden, but the strongest is the earliest and least obvious. At first, as one travels up and down the a Roman Peninsula, familiar forms catch the eye—perhaps aqueduct bringing the town water, or a French Gothic cathedral with a Flemish painting over the altar, an Italian Renaissance tomb adorning the nave. Further south in on Andalucia, the Moorish influence is equally striking setting. But account of its unfamiliarity in a European confusing styles, gradually, among the multitude of these re-occurring. one influence will be found occurring and i B SPANISH GARDENS expressed in terms sometimes in Byzantine guise, sometimes realized that these two ele- of Moslem art.' Then it will be ments which reached Spain along the African coast have proved stronger and more lasting than ideas from Latin Europe, because they harmonized with the underlying spirit of the Peninsula—the tenacious Iberian spirit that through the ages has given continuity to the country s life and art, binding through all conquests has survived and proved the and transmuting force, the Spanish element in Spain. The Lady of Elche in the Louvre, with her calm impas- sive smile and her curiously rich wheeled headdress, has just those qualities of massive strength combined with com- plicated, even riotous decoration, that mixture of the mys- terious and grandiose with the grotesquely bizarre, unfamiliar for the most part in European countries, but recognizable almost everywhere in Spain. Each flowering period of Spanish art shows these fundamental traits at work.
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