Stourhead, Pleasure Gardens c.1965
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S741085
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In 1741 Henry Hoare the Younger returned from the Grand Tour particularly impressed by what he had seen in Italy. He had become converted to the idea of 'educating' nature, using and modifying the natural contours to produce pleasing compositions. This was to lead him to create one of England's great gardens. Influenced by artists such as Claude and Poussin, Hoare set about creating their vision of an 'Arcadian' landscape. The lake was created in 1744, with the intention that a walk around its shores would be an allegory of Aeneas's voyage after the fall of Troy. To make his vision a reality, Hoare engaged the services of the architect Flitcroft to create a series of buildings, including the Pantheon, the Temple of Flora and the Temple of Apollo, inspired by the original at Baalbek in the Lebanon.
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