ABSTRACT
Bazin’s main interests were painting, sculpture and architecture but his comment fits baroque gardens exceptionally well. They integrate a ‘multiplicity of phenomena’ (landform, water, vegetation, sculpture, fountains, terracing, roads, paths, steps, bridges and architecture); they are ‘dynamic and open’, with avenues piercing garden boundaries as effectively as canon broke city walls in the baroque era; their dramatic water features create a ‘flux of things’ in ‘perpetual becoming’. Drama was the essence.
