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The Hermit in the Garden - From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (Hardcover)
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The Hermit in the Garden - From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R310
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You Save R89 (22%)
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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor
Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the
ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the
eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly
fashionable for owners of country estates to commission
architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies
often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a
ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with
imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the
landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as
garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting
their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the
hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits,
products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing
melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the
end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark
on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And,
as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and
drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day
garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes
the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical,
both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around
the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which
remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for
the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist,
enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.
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