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href="/wiki/File:Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg/220px-Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg/330px-Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg/440px-Martin_Schongauer_Madonna_in_Rose_Garden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="2298" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Martin_Schongauer" title="Martin Schongauer">Martin Schongauer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Madonna_of_the_Rose_Bower_(Schongauer)" title="Madonna of the Rose Bower (Schongauer)">Madonna of the Rose Bower</a></i>, 1473</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Hortus conclusus</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> term, meaning literally "enclosed garden". Both words in <i>hortus conclusus</i> refer linguistically to enclosure.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It describes a type of garden that was enclosed as a practical concern, a major theme in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_gardening" title="History of gardening">history of gardening</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Walled_garden" title="Walled garden">walled gardens</a> were and are common.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Garden_room" title="Garden room">garden room</a> is a similar feature, usually less fully enclosed. </p><p>Having roots in the <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Songs" title="Song of Songs">Song of Songs</a></i> in the Hebrew scriptures, the term <i>hortus conclusus</i> has importantly been applied as an <a href="/wiki/Emblem" title="Emblem">emblematic attribute</a> and a title of the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">Medieval</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> poetry<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and art, first appearing in paintings and manuscript illuminations about 1330<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Virgin_Mary_as_hortus_conclusus">The Virgin Mary as <i>hortus conclusus</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The Virgin Mary as hortus conclusus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fra_Angelico_043.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Fra_Angelico_043.jpg/220px-Fra_Angelico_043.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Fra_Angelico_043.jpg/330px-Fra_Angelico_043.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Fra_Angelico_043.jpg/440px-Fra_Angelico_043.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1040" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_Annunciation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Annunciation">The Annunciation</a></i> - <a href="/wiki/Convent_of_San_Marco" class="mw-redirect" title="Convent of San Marco">Convent of San Marco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The term <i>hortus conclusus</i> is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a> Bible's <i><a href="/wiki/Canticle_of_Canticles" class="mw-redirect" title="Canticle of Canticles">Canticle of Canticles</a></i> (also called the <i>Song of Songs</i> or <i>Song of Solomon</i>) 4:12, in Latin: "<i>Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus</i>" ("A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.")<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This provided the shared linguistic culture of Christendom, expressed in <a href="/wiki/Homily" title="Homily">homilies</a> expounding the <i>Song of Songs</i> as <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> where the image of King <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>'s nuptial song to his bride was reinterpreted as the love and union between Christ and the Church, the mystical marriage with the Church as the <a href="/wiki/Bride_of_Christ" title="Bride of Christ">Bride of Christ</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg/180px-15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg/270px-15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg/360px-15th-century_unknown_painters_-_Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus_-_WGA23736.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1393" /></a><figcaption>The <i><a href="/wiki/Madonna_on_a_Crescent_Moon_in_Hortus_Conclusus" title="Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus">Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus</a></i> by an <a href="/wiki/Anonymity" title="Anonymity">anonymous</a> painter</figcaption></figure> <p>The verse "Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee" (4.7) from the <i>Song</i> was also regarded as a scriptural confirmation of the developing and still controversial doctrine of Mary's <a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Conception" title="Immaculate Conception">Immaculate Conception</a> – being born without <a href="/wiki/Original_Sin" class="mw-redirect" title="Original Sin">Original Sin</a> ("<i>macula</i>" is Latin for spot). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> tradition states that <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a> was conceived to Mary <a href="/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_Jesus" title="Virgin birth of Jesus">miraculously</a> and without disrupting her virginity by the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a>, the third person of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Trinity">Holy Trinity</a>. As such, Mary in late medieval and Renaissance art, illustrating the long-held doctrine of the <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_virginity_of_Mary" title="Perpetual virginity of Mary">perpetual virginity of Mary</a>, as well as the Immaculate Conception, was shown in or near a walled garden or yard. This was a representation of her "closed off" womb, which was to remain untouched, and also of her being protected, as by a wall, from sin. In the <a href="/wiki/Grimani_Breviary" class="mw-redirect" title="Grimani Breviary">Grimani Breviary</a>, scrolling labels identify the emblematic objects betokening the Immaculate Conception: the enclosed garden (<i>hortus conclusus</i>), the tall cedar (<i>cedrus exalta</i>), the well of living waters (<i>puteus aquarum viventium</i>), the olive tree (<i>oliva speciosa</i>), the fountain in the garden (<i>fons hortorum</i>), the rosebush (<i>plantatio rosae</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not all actual medieval <i>horti conclusi</i> even strove to include all these details, the olive tree in particular being insufficiently hardy for northern European gardens. </p><p>The enclosed garden is recognizable in <a href="/wiki/Fra_Angelico" title="Fra Angelico">Fra Angelico</a>'s <i>Annunciation</i> (illustration at above left), dating from 1430-32. </p><p>Two pilgrimage sites are dedicated to Mary of the Enclosed Garden in the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a>-<a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flemish</a> cultural area. One is the statue at the hermitage-chapel in <a href="/wiki/Warfhuizen" title="Warfhuizen">Warfhuizen</a>: "<a href="/wiki/Sorrowful_Mother_of_Warfhuizen" title="Sorrowful Mother of Warfhuizen">Our Lady of the Enclosed Garden</a>". The second, <i>Onze Lieve Vrouw van Tuine</i> (literally "Our Lady of the Garden"), is venerated at the cathedral of <a href="/wiki/Ypres" title="Ypres">Ypres</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Actual_gardens">Actual gardens</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Actual gardens"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All gardens are by definition enclosed or bounded spaces, but the enclosure may be somewhat open and consist only of columns, low hedges or fences. An actual <a href="/wiki/Walled_garden" title="Walled garden">walled garden</a>, literally surrounded by a wall, is a subset of gardens. The meaning of <i>hortus conclusus</i> suggests a more private style of garden. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg/220px-Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg/330px-Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Photo_Ch%C3%A2teau-de-Coucy_jardin_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="302" /></a><figcaption>Medieval-style garden from <a href="/wiki/Coucy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau-Auffrique" title="Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique">Coucy</a>, France</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/History_of_gardens" class="mw-redirect" title="History of gardens">history of gardens</a> the High Medieval <i>hortus conclusus</i> typically had a well or fountain at the center, bearing its usual symbolic freight (see "<a href="/wiki/Fountain_of_Life" title="Fountain of Life">Fountain of Life</a>") in addition to its practical uses. The convention of four paths that divided the square enclosure into quadrants was so strong that the pattern was employed even where the paths led nowhere. All medieval gardens were enclosed, protecting the private precinct from public intrusion, whether by folk or by stray animals. The enclosure might be as simple as <a href="/wiki/Wattle-and-daub" class="mw-redirect" title="Wattle-and-daub">woven wattle</a> fencing or of stout or decorative masonry; or it might be enclosed by <a href="/wiki/Trellis_(architecture)" title="Trellis (architecture)">trelliswork</a> tunneled pathways in a secular garden or by an arcaded <a href="/wiki/Cloister" title="Cloister">cloister</a>, for communication or meditative pacing. </p><p>The origin of the <a href="/wiki/Cloister" title="Cloister">cloister</a> is in the Roman colonnaded <a href="/wiki/Peristyle" title="Peristyle">peristyle</a>, as garden histories note. The ruined and overgrown <a href="/wiki/Roman_villa" title="Roman villa">Roman villas</a> that were so often remade as the site of <a href="/wiki/Benedictine_monastery" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine monastery">Benedictine monasteries</a> had lost their planted garden features with the first decades of abandonment: "gardening, more than architecture, more than painting, more than music, and far more than literature, is an ephemeral art; its masterpieces disappear, leaving little trace."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Georgina_Masson" title="Georgina Masson">Georgina Masson</a> observed: "When, in 1070, the <a href="/wiki/Montecassino" class="mw-redirect" title="Montecassino">abbey of Cassino</a> was rebuilt,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the garden was described as 'a paradise in the Roman fashion'." But it may have been merely "the aura of the great classical tradition" alone that had survived.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ninth-century idealised <a href="/wiki/Plan_of_Saint_Gall" title="Plan of Saint Gall">plan of Saint Gall</a> (illustration) shows an arcaded cloister with a central well and cross-paths from the centers of each range of arcading. But when a consciously patterned garden was revived for the medieval cloister, the patterning came through <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily" title="Kingdom of Sicily">Norman Sicily</a> and its hybrid culture that adapted many Islamic elements, in this case the enclosed North African courtyard gardens, ultimately based on the <a href="/wiki/Persian_garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian garden">Persian garden</a> tradition. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg/220px-Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg/330px-Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg/440px-Meister_des_Frankfurter_Paradiesg%C3%A4rtleins_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="1576" /></a><figcaption><i>Hortus conclusus</i> depicted by the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Rhenish_Master" title="Upper Rhenish Master">Upper Rhenish Master</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The practical enclosed garden was laid out in the treatise by <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Crescenzi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pietro Crescenzi">Pietro Crescenzi</a> of Bologna, <i>Liber ruralium commodorum</i>, a work that was often copied, as the many surviving manuscripts of its text attest, and often printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Late medieval paintings and <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illuminations in manuscripts</a> such as for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Romance_of_the_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="The Romance of the Rose">The Romance of the Rose</a> –</i> where the garden in the text is largely allegorical – often show a turfed bank for a seat as a feature of the <i>hortus conclusus</i>. Only in the fifteenth century, at first in Italy, did some European gardens begin to look outward. </p><p>Sitting, walking and playing music were the activities most often portrayed in the numerous fifteenth-century paintings and illuminated manuscripts, where strenuous activities were inappropriate. In Rome, a late fifteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Cloister" title="Cloister">cloister</a> at San Giovanni dei Genovesi was constructed for the use of the Genoese <i><a href="/wiki/Nation" title="Nation">natio</a></i>, an <i>Ospitium Genoensium</i>, as a plaque still proclaims, which provided shelter in cubicles off its vaulted encircling arcades, and a meeting place and shelter reuniting those from the distant home city.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg/220px-K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg/330px-K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg/440px-K%C3%B6lner_Maler_um_1430_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="2318" /></a><figcaption><i>Virgin and Child with saints and donor family</i>, Cologne, c. 1430</figcaption></figure> <p>Somewhat earlier, Pietro Barbo, who became <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_II" title="Pope Paul II">Pope Paul II</a> in 1464, began the construction of a <i>hortus conclusus</i>, the Palazzetto del Giardino di San Marco, attached to the Venetian Cardinals' Roman seat, the Palazzo Venezia.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It served as Paul's private garden during his papacy; inscriptions stress its secular functions as <i>sublimes moenibus hortos...ut relevare animum, durasque repellere curas</i>, a garden of sublime delights, a retreat from cares, and praise it in classicising terms as the home of the <a href="/wiki/Dryad" title="Dryad">dryads</a>, suggesting that there was a central grove of trees, and mentioning its snowy-white stuccoed porticoes. An eighteenth-century engraving shows a tree-covered central mount, which has been recreated in the modern replanting, with box-bordered cross and saltire gravelled paths.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Farnese_Gardens" title="Farnese Gardens">Farnese Gardens</a> (<i>Orti Farnesiani sul Palatino –</i> or "Gardens of Farnese upon the Palatine") were created by <a href="/wiki/Jacopo_Barozzi_da_Vignola" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola">Vignola</a> in 1550 on Rome's northern <a href="/wiki/Palatine_Hill" title="Palatine Hill">Palatine Hill</a>, for Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Farnese_(cardinal)" title="Alessandro Farnese (cardinal)">Alessandro Farnese</a> (1520–89). These become the first private <a href="/wiki/Botanical_garden" title="Botanical garden">botanical gardens</a> in Europe (the first botanical gardens of any kind in Europe being started by Italian universities in the mid-16th century, only a short time before). Alessandro called his summer home at the site <i>Horti Farnesiani</i>, probably in reference to the <i>hortus conclusus.</i> These gardens were also designed in the Roman peristylium style with a central fountain.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Again in the age of the automobile, the enclosed garden that had never disappeared in <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> society became an emblem of serenity and privacy in the Western world. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_art">In art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unicorn_annunciation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Unicorn_annunciation.jpg/220px-Unicorn_annunciation.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="338" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Unicorn_annunciation.jpg/330px-Unicorn_annunciation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Unicorn_annunciation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="390" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hunt_of_the_Unicorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunt of the Unicorn">Hunt of the Unicorn</a> Annunciation (ca. 1500) from a Netherlandish Book of Hours. In this example <a href="/wiki/Gideon" title="Gideon">Gideon</a>'s fleece is worked in as well, and the altar at the rear has <a href="/wiki/Aaron%27s_rod" title="Aaron's rod">Aaron's rod</a> that miraculously flowered in the centre. Both are <a href="/wiki/Typology_(theology)" title="Typology (theology)">types</a> for the Annunciation.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>hortus conclusus</i> was one of a number of depictions of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages developed to be more informal and intimate than the traditional hieratic enthroned Virgin adopted from Byzantine icons, or the <a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_Virgin" title="Coronation of the Virgin">Coronation of the Virgin</a>. The subject began as a specific metaphor for the <a href="/wiki/Annunciation" title="Annunciation">Annunciation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but tended to develop into a relaxed <i><a href="/wiki/Sacra_conversatione" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacra conversatione">sacra conversatione</a></i>, with several figures beside the Virgin seated, and less specific associations. Germany and the Netherlands in the 15th century saw the peak popularity of this depiction of the Virgin, usually with Child, and very often a crowd of angels, saints and donors, in the garden; the garden by itself, to represent the Virgin, was much rarer. Often walls or <a href="/wiki/Trellis_(agriculture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trellis (agriculture)">trellises</a> close off the sides and rear, or it may be shown as open, except for raised banks, to a landscape beyond. Sometimes, as with a <a href="/wiki/Gerard_David" title="Gerard David">Gerard David</a>'s <i>The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor</i> (below) the garden is very fully depicted; at other times, as in <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engravings</a> by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Schongauer" title="Martin Schongauer">Martin Schongauer</a>, only a wattle fence and a few sprigs of grass serve to identify the theme. Italian painters typically also keep plants to a minimum, and do not have grass benches. A sub-variety of the theme was the German "Madonna of the Roses", sometimes attempted in sculptured <a href="/wiki/Altarpiece" title="Altarpiece">altarpieces</a>. The image was rare in Orthodox <a href="/wiki/Icon" title="Icon">icons</a>, but there are at least some Russian examples.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One type of depiction, not usually compatible with correct perspective, concentrates on showing the whole wall and several garden structures or features that symbolize the mystery of Christ's conception, mostly derived from the <i>Song of Songs</i> or other Biblical passages as interpreted by theological writers. These may include one or more temple or church-like buildings, an <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivory Tower">Ivory Tower</a> (SS 7.4), an open-air altar with <a href="/wiki/Aaron%27s_rod" title="Aaron's rod">Aaron's rod</a> flowering, surrounded by the bare rods of the other tribes, a gatehouse "tower of David, hung with shields" (SS 7.4),<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the gate closed, the <a href="/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant" title="Ark of the Covenant">Ark of the Covenant</a>, a well (often covered), a fountain, and the morning sun above (SS 6.10).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This type of depiction usually shows the Annunciation, although sometimes the child Jesus is held by Mary.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A rather rare, late 15th century, variant of this depiction was to combine the Annunciation in the <i>hortus conclusus</i> with the <i><a href="/wiki/Hunt_of_the_Unicorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunt of the Unicorn">Hunt of the Unicorn</a></i> and <i>Virgin and <a href="/wiki/Unicorn" title="Unicorn">Unicorn</a></i>, so popular in secular art. The unicorn already functioned as a symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Incarnation_of_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Incarnation of Christ">Incarnation</a> and whether this meaning is intended in many <i>prima facie</i> secular depictions can be a difficult matter of scholarly interpretation. There is no such ambiguity in the scenes where the archangel <a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a> is shown blowing a horn, as hounds chase the unicorn into the Virgin's arms, and a little Christ Child descends on rays of light from God the Father. The <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Trent" title="Council of Trent">Council of Trent</a> finally banned this somewhat over-elaborated, if charming, depiction,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> partly on the grounds of realism, as no one now believed the unicorn to be a real animal. In the 16th century the subject of the <i>hortus conclusus</i> drifts into the open air <i><a href="/wiki/Sacra_Conversazione" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacra Conversazione">Sacra Conversazione</a></i> and the Madonnas in a landscape of <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Bellini" title="Giovanni Bellini">Giovanni Bellini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer" title="Albrecht Dürer">Albrecht Dürer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Raphael" title="Raphael">Raphael</a>, where it is hard to say if an allusion is intended. </p><p>An exhibition of later medieval visual representations of <i>hortus inclusus</i> was mounted at <a href="/wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks" title="Dumbarton Oaks">Dumbarton Oaks</a>, Washington DC;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the exhibition drew a distinction between "garden representations as thematic reinforcements and those that seemingly treat the garden as a subject in itself"; in reviewing it Timothy Husband, warned against uncritical interpretation of the refined detail in manuscript illuminations' "seemingly objective representation". "Late medieval garden imagery, by subjugating direct observation to symbolic or allegorical intention, reflects more a state of mind than reality,"<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> if a disjunct can be detected where the objects of the world shimmered with pregnant allegorical meaning. South Netherlandish illuminations and painting appear to document the "turf benches, fountains, raised beds, 'estrade'<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> trees, potted plants, walkways, enclosing walls, <a href="/wiki/Trellis_(agriculture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trellis (agriculture)">trellises</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acacia" title="Acacia">wattle</a> fences and <a href="/wiki/Pergola" title="Pergola">bowers</a>" familiar to contemporary viewers, but assembled into an illusion of reality.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gentile da Fabriano"><img alt="Gentile da Fabriano" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg/102px-Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg" decoding="async" width="102" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg/152px-Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg/203px-Gentile_da_Fabriano_044.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="2389" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Gentile_da_Fabriano" title="Gentile da Fabriano">Gentile da Fabriano</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fra_Angelico_094.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fra Angelico"><img alt="Fra Angelico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fra_Angelico_094.jpg/120px-Fra_Angelico_094.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fra_Angelico_094.jpg/180px-Fra_Angelico_094.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fra_Angelico_094.jpg/240px-Fra_Angelico_094.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="1808" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Fra_Angelico" title="Fra Angelico">Fra Angelico</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gerard David"><img alt="Gerard David" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/120px-Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/180px-Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/240px-Gerard_David_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_and_Donor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2179" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Gerard_David" title="Gerard David">Gerard David</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Style of Dieric Bouts"><img alt="Style of Dieric Bouts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg/97px-Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg/146px-Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg/194px-Madonna_w_ogrodzie_Mistycznym.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="1530" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Style of <a href="/wiki/Dieric_Bouts" title="Dieric Bouts">Dieric Bouts</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Museo_di_castelvecchio,_michelino_di_besozzo,_madonna_del_roseto.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Italian miniature, c. 1435"><img alt="Italian miniature, c. 1435" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG/90px-Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG/135px-Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG/180px-Museo_di_castelvecchio%2C_michelino_di_besozzo%2C_madonna_del_roseto.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Italian miniature, c. 1435</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Early woodcut, c. 1460, hand-coloured"><img alt="Early woodcut, c. 1460, hand-coloured" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg/89px-Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg" decoding="async" width="89" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg/133px-Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg/178px-Vierge_a_la_rose_dans_un_jardin_clos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="593" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Early <a href="/wiki/Woodcut" title="Woodcut">woodcut</a>, c. 1460, hand-coloured</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stefan Lochner"><img alt="Stefan Lochner" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg/97px-Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg/145px-Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg/194px-Stefan_Lochner_Madonna_im_Rosenhag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1805" data-file-height="2232" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Lochner" title="Stefan Lochner">Stefan Lochner</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bartolomé Bermejo, Virgen de Montserrat altarpiece, 1485"><img alt="Bartolomé Bermejo, Virgen de Montserrat altarpiece, 1485" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg/120px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg/180px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg/240px-Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo_-_Retablo_della_vergine_di_Montserrat.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2333" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo" title="Bartolomé Bermejo">Bartolomé Bermejo</a>, <i>Virgen de Montserrat</i> altarpiece, 1485</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cologne, ca. 1520"><img alt="Cologne, ca. 1520" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg/120px-Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg/180px-Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg/240px-Triptych_of_the_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2657" data-file-height="1067" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Cologne, ca. 1520</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Juan de Juanes, after 1530"><img alt="Juan de Juanes, after 1530" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG/101px-Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG" decoding="async" width="101" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG/151px-Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG/202px-Juan_de_Juanes_-_Inmaculada_Concepci%C3%B3n.JPG 2x" data-file-width="419" data-file-height="498" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Juanes" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan de Juanes">Juan de Juanes</a>, after 1530</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Woodcut dated 1418, but probably 1450s"><img alt="Woodcut dated 1418, but probably 1450s" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg/79px-Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg/119px-Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg/159px-Virgin-saints-garden-1418.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1653" data-file-height="2500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Woodcut dated 1418, but probably 1450s</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_cultural_references">Modern cultural references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Modern cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg/220px-Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg/330px-Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg/440px-Peter_Zumthor_Serpentine_Pavilion_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Serpentine Pavilion, Hyde Park, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Zumthor" title="Peter Zumthor">Peter Zumthor</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The concept for the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Serpentine_Galleries#Pavilions" title="Serpentine Galleries">Serpentine Gallery Pavilion</a> was the <i>hortus conclusus</i>, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. Designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and with a garden created by <a href="/wiki/Piet_Oudolf" title="Piet Oudolf">Piet Oudolf</a>, the Pavilion was a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London – an interior space within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artas,_Bethlehem" title="Artas, Bethlehem">Artas, Bethlehem</a>, location of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> Convent of the Hortus Conclusus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaston_Bachelard" title="Gaston Bachelard">Gaston Bachelard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_amoenus" title="Locus amoenus">Locus amoenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topophilia" title="Topophilia">Topophilia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_garden" title="Renaissance garden">Renaissance garden</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clifford, <i>A History of Garden design</i>, (New York:Praeger) 1963:17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rob Aben and Saskia de Wit, <i>The Enclosed Garden: History and Development of the Hortus Conclusus and its Re-Introduction into the Present-Day Urban Landscape</i> (Rotterdam) 1999. A typological catalogue of design features and a design manual.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stanley Stewart, <i>The Enclosed Garden: The Tradition and Image in Seventeenth-Century Poetry</i> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press) 1966, discussed late sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry in English; its four first chapters trace the <i>hortus conclusus</i> theme in European literatures and the visual arts.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Michelle P. Brown, "The World of the Luttrell Psalter" British Library 2006,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brian E. Daley, "The 'Closed Garden'and the 'Sealed Fountain': Song of Songs 4:12 in the Late Medieval Iconography of Mary", Elizabeth B. Macdougall, editor, <i>Medieval Gardens</i>, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium <b>9</b>) 1986, traced the sudden development about 1400 of painted images of the Virgin Mary in a <i>hortus conclusus</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://193.8.230.138/etexts/www/Bible/Song_of_Solomon.html">The whole text</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110529140849/http://193.8.230.138/etexts/www/Bible/Song_of_Solomon.html">Archived</a> 2011-05-29 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Timothy Husband, reporting the exhibition and its catalogue in <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, <b>125</b>, No. 967 (October 1983:643).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clifford 1963, <i>eo. loc.</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The site was that of a Roman imperial villa, as was the site of Benedict's monastery at <a href="/wiki/Subiaco,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Subiaco, Italy">Subiaco</a>, occupying Nero's former villa.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Masson, <i>Italian Gardens</i> (New York: Abrams) 1961:46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wolfgang Lotz, "Bramante and the Quattrocento Cloister" <i>Gesta</i> <b>12</b>.1/2 (1973):111-121) p. 113.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It was dismantled and re-erected in 1910 to make space for <a href="/wiki/Piazza_Venezia" title="Piazza Venezia">Piazza Venezia</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Hinc hortos dryadumque domos et amena vireta/ Porticibus circum et niveis lustrata columnis</i>Lotz 1973 <i>eo. loc.</i> and figs 10 and 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theromanforum.com/?p=160">"The Roman Forum"</a>. <i>www.theromanforum.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-08-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.theromanforum.com&rft.atitle=The+Roman+Forum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theromanforum.com%2F%3Fp%3D160&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHortus+conclusus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schiller, 54; <a href="/wiki/File:Annunciation_with_mystic_hunt_-_Colmar_(cropped).jpg" title="File:Annunciation with mystic hunt - Colmar (cropped).jpg">similar image on panel</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schiller, pp 52-55</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/images/icon18.jpg">Russian example</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tretyakov_Gallery" title="Tretyakov Gallery">Tretyakov Gallery</a> Moscow.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schiller, pp 53-54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gertrud_Schiller" title="Gertrud Schiller">Gertrud Schiller</a>, <i>Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. I</i>,1971 (English trans from German), Lund Humphries, London, pp. 52-4 & figs 126-9, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85331-270-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-85331-270-2">0-85331-270-2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sagen.at/fotos/data/603/medium/Maria_Gail_HortusConclusus_Detail.jpg">another image</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Exhibition catalogue, Marilyn Stokstad and Jerry Stannard, <i>Gardens of the Middle Ages</i>, Dumbarton Oaks and Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas (University of Kansas) 1983.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Husband 1983:644.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">An <i>estrade</i> tree was pruned into a series of diminishing horizontal tiers like a sweetmeat stand, the French <i>estrade</i> coming from Spanish <i>estrado</i>, denoting the carpeted and raised section of a room (cf <i>OED</i>, <i>s.v.</i> "estrade", "estrado").</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Husband, <i>eo. loc.</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2011-peter-zumthor/">"Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor"</a>. <i>Serpentine Galleries</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Firenze: Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788822217899" title="Special:BookSources/9788822217899"><bdi>9788822217899</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Garden+of+the+Renaissance%3A+Botanical+Symbolism+in+Italian+Painting&rft.place=Firenze&rft.pub=Casa+Editrice+Leo+S.Olschki&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=9788822217899&rft.aulast=D%27Ancona&rft.aufirst=Mirella+Levi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHortus+conclusus" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hortus_conclusus&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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