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Painted Landscape Film
Aug 4, 2011
Come and watch the beautiful Painted Landscape film now showing in the Octagon Summer House.
The film, called ‘The Painted Landscape’ gives an insight into what inspired owner, Copplestone Warre Bampfylde, to create this masterpiece in the first place between 1750 and 1786. Whilst the landscape may feel entirely natural it is in fact all planned as a series of carefully orchestrated views, each composed as if it were a landscape painting, hence the description, Landscape Garden. It’s an idealised landscape, revealing new delights at every turn, with the surrounding countryside ingeniously used as a ‘borrowed’ backdrop.
The motivation for the carefully framed views came from the work of three well know artists of Bampfylde’s day: Claude Lorrain, Salvator Rosa and Gaspar Dughet. Their paintings are comprised themselves of framed views that capture the kind of arcadian idea (a heaven on earth) filled with temples, arbours, gushing waterfalls, wild and rugged rocky crags and even nymphs dancing, that Bampfylde sought to emanate. As you wander through the restored landscape now, see how many of Bampfylde’s framed views you can see!
The motivation for the carefully framed views came from the work of three well know artists of Bampfylde’s day: Claude Lorrain, Salvator Rosa and Gaspar Dughet. Their paintings are comprised themselves of framed views that capture the kind of arcadian idea (a heaven on earth) filled with temples, arbours, gushing waterfalls, wild and rugged rocky crags and even nymphs dancing, that Bampfylde sought to emanate. As you wander through the restored landscape now, see how many of Bampfylde’s framed views you can see!
