ABSTRACT
This chapter signals a change of direction with the discovery of the New World. Many early travelers viewed the mysterious continent as Edenic in its flora and fauna, but many also saw it as a region to be exploited. Meanwhile, by the start of the seventeenth century, the baroque city and garden had become the new papal and princely fashion, culminating with the examples of Versailles, Karlsruhe, and Washington. A century later this fervor would waver under the garden sensibilities of the picturesque movement, which had significant aesthetic implications for design. Early examples are the picturesque parks of Stowe and Stourhead.
