"Allegory, Expression & Experience in the English Renaissance Garden"

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Forum

John Dixon Hunt
Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape
University of Pennsylvania

Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Landscape Architecture since 1994, John Dixon Hunt followed his Cambridge (King’s College) undergraduate degree with a Ph.D. from Bristol. A teaching career highlighted by positions at Vassar, Exeter, York, Leiden, East Anglia, and Dumbarton Oaks has been matched by numerous fellowships, editorships, and consultancies ranging from tenures at the American Academy in Rome to editorship of the Journal of Garden History (since 1981) and Word & Image (since 1985) to advisory roles in Venetian garden restoration and botanical garden interpretive programs. He is the author of innumerable articles [not only in landscape journals but also Apollo, Lincoln Center Theatre Review, and Comparative Criticism (to name a few)], and chapters on topics including T. S. Eliot and modern painting, Utopia in and as garden, and garden as commemoration. His books include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination: 1848-1900 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), his Critical Commentary on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (Macmillan 1968), studies of Marvell, Ruskin, and William Kent, his classic Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750 (J. M. Dent, 1986) and the recent Picturesque Garden in Europe (Thames & Hudson, 2002)