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Caus, Salomon de · 1515 · 35 pictures

This is a German-language treatise by Salomon de Caus, dated 1515 in the catalogue but of early seventeenth-century character, from Heidelberg University Library, on hydraulic machines, grottoes, garden fountains and organ building for patrons and craftsmen. The plates show engraved parterre knot designs with scrolling foliage, clipped garden beds set with topiary, and architectural ground plans of gardens and terraces. A designer could take the interlaced scroll ornament of the knot patterns and the geometric layouts of the garden plans as models for pattern, border and plan work.

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