This study catalogs all the gardens Le Nôtre worked on throughout his lifetime, and aims to reveal a complete picture of Nôtre’s works by identifying characteristics 70 included in this study, as well their relevance Nôtre, benefactors, subsequent status. As result, found that workload peaked later years during 60s, right Louis XIV, who was 25 junior, at peak reign, because many imitation were ...

25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D. Clark advanced the then contentious claim that until the end of the long 18th century England remained what he styled a ‘confessional state’.(1) Missing from the wave of prior work by social and political historians of 18th-century England, Clark argued, was a close attent...

Nikolai Leontiev is a Russian 18th-century fabulist, esteemed by contemporaries but later forgotten. The paper shows that seven of his fables are based on J. La Fontaine’s examples. There two patterns reception. In one them the plot and personae same as in source text, while other pattern they changed. moral usually stays same, some cases, makes certain changes, which reflect ideology. Among Th...

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part the established working methods in many arts. world 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because substitution or compilation arias fitting singer's abilities proved best recipe for fulfilling expectations audiences. Known as »pasticcios« si...