Gardens and parks

The garden is nature arranged according to human dreams, and in art it has often stood for paradise. We follow it from Livia’s painted garden room and the enclosed garden of the Middle Ages, through Renaissance villas, Versailles and Fragonard’s swing, to Monet’s Giverny, Liebermann’s Wannsee and the Japanese gardens of woodblock prints.

• Paradise and the first gardens – antiquity
• The enclosed garden – the Middle Ages
• Pleasure gardens and water features – the Renaissance
• The garden of love and the king’s park – the Baroque
• The swing and the landscape park – the 18th century
• Giverny and Wannsee – the 19th century and the turn of the century
• Stones, water and ink – China and Japan
• Artists’ gardens – the 20th century and today