"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best... Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art."-Country Life
John Dixon Hunt is the Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape in the Department of Landscape Architecture, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of the journal Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes and was previously the inaugural editor of Word and Image. His publications include The Genius of the Place, The Figure in the Landscape, William Kent, Gardens and the Picturesque, and A World of Gardens.
