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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 |
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‘Versailles Of The North’ Garden To Be Restored |
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WEST YORK, U.K.- Scientists from Leeds University are currently conducting tests using ground-penetrating radar to determine whether it will be possible to restore a complex 17th century water garden at Bramham Park, near Wetherby, West York, once described as the Versailles of the North. The garden was the inspiration of Robert Benson, first Lord Bingley, who commissioned designs in 1698 after visiting water gardens in 1698. It is believed the gardens only worked briefly before falling into disrepair. Inspiration for the design of the garden at Bramham was French and formal, but the manner in which it was adapted to the natural landscape is relaxed and entirely English. It is still completely original, perhaps the only large-scale formal garden to survive virtually unchanged from the early eighteenth century.
Bramham is a garden of walks and vistas, architectural features and reflecting water. Its main axis runs from north to south across the house front, not centred squarely on the house in the French manner. As you walk around the garden, you experience a growing feeling of anticipation - what will I see around the next corner?
Leaving the house, the elegant double flight of steps from the Long Gallery is a copy of one at Fontainebleau. Ahead is the rose garden, and at the northern end of the walk is the Chapel, originally an orangery built in the 1750s.
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Today's News
September 17, 2025
Harvard Art Museums explore the act of drawing with Sketch, Shade, Smudge this fall
SJ Auctioneers announces online-only Estate Silverware, Jewelry, Décor, Glass & Toys auction
Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces results of two days and four sessions of auctions
The Rockwell Museum announces inaugural Mary Spurrier Fellowship in Native American Art recipient
Pirelli HangarBicocca opens the most extensive solo exhibition by Japanese artist Yuko Mohri to date
New exhibition explores the alchemy of making with Rana Begum, Lubna Chowdhary, Eva Rothschild, and Anni Albers
National Air and Space Museum expands its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Unique Van Gogh experience at the Kröller-Müller Museum while Terrace of a Café at Night is in Japan
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts explores the history of Black musical theater in exhibition
The Huntington to receive historic gift of the L.A. Louver archive & library
Two works by Claes Oldenburg and Alex Da Corte to be part of "Atlas" at Fondazione Prada
The Baltimore Museum of Art opens Engaging the Elements: Poetry in Nature
Take a world tour of Jewish literary creativity this fall at the Grolier Club
Lethaby Gallery presents Re:generating Creativity exhibition
Fondazione Furla presents Sara Enrico: Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin
Artist Tessa Lynch unveils new works that critically reflect on urban life
Louisiana Art & Science Museum names Krystal Swain Director of Education & Aerospace
In "Desenmarcado," Pablo Reinoso explores the boundaries of form and function
Elif Uras's new exhibition explores women's labor through pottery and gold
Deutsche Bank Lounge at Frieze London 2025 to host Noémie Goudal: Inhale Exhale
Igshaan Adams' solo exhibition weaves together a spiritual and communal tapestry
2025 Tarnanthi Festival launches with First Nations hip hop supergroup 3% and the Tarnanthi Art Fair
Takashi Murakami's monumental Panda Géant (2009) offered at auction
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