| Title: | Turf amphitheater, vertugadin |
| Original Title: | Amphitheatre de Gason, Vertugadin |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 378 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Turf amphitheater, vertugadin." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.745>. Trans. of "Amphitheatre de Gason, Vertugadin," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Turf amphitheater, vertugadin." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.745 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Amphitheatre de Gason, Vertugadin," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:378 (Paris, 1751). |
Turf amphitheatre, vertugadin , in Gardening, a grass ornament serving to straighten slopes or mountains which one does not intend to terrace. Platforms, gradines, and levels lead imperceptibly to the higher reaches. These amphitheatres are ornamented with yews, plant boxes and pots, earthenware vases filled with seasonal shrubs and flowers, and statues and fountains. [1]
Notes
1. French turf amphitheatres, unlike those of Charles Bridgeman, were not shaped like ancient amphitheatres (article ‘Amphitheatre’, Patrick Goode and Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, in Jellicoe et al., 1991, p. 15). See also article ‘Vertugadin’.