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Explore the transition of garden designs from formal to landscaped in art history. Compare the ordered beauty of sixteenth and seventeenth-century formal gardens with the natural charm of eighteenth-century landscapes at Stourhead in Wiltshire.
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A formal garden, with its gravel paths, small flower beds, and clipped shrubs, all in regular patterns. Formal gardens were the fashion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
An eighteenth-century landscaped garden (at Stourhead in Wlitshire). Here, the trees and plants grew in a much more natural way.