Introduction: The New Horizons of Baroque Garden Cultures
Michel Conan

Part I: European Networks, from Emulation to Sublimation

Of Plants and Gardeners, Prints and Books: Reception and Exchange in Northern European Garden Culture 1648-1725
Erik A. de Jong

Gardens of Knowledge and the République des Gens de Sciences
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi

Part II: Emulating the Politics of Garden Display

Pastoral Landscape and Social Politics in Baroque Rome
Tracy L. Ehrlich

The Aesthetic and Social Reception and Development of the Baroque Garden in Sweden
Magnus Olausson

Saxon Baroque Gardens (1694-1733): Nature's Entertainment Palaces
Roland Puppe

Part III: Sublimation and Subversion of Baroque Garden Politics

Islands of Delight: Shifting Perceptions of the Borromean Islands
Mergherita Azzi Visentini

Spectacle, Ritual, and Social Relations: The Son of Heaven, Citizens, and Created Space in Imperial Gardens in the Northern Song
Stephen H. West

Friendship and Imagination in French Baroque Gardens before 1661
Michel Conan

Polity and Politeness at Castle Howard: Awed and Angry Visitors in a Baroque Landscape Architecture
Lance Neckar

Contributors

Index