I may never want to live in a house that looks like Mount Vernon, but I love the way this front lawn runs right up to the portico without any transition in the way of terracing or foundation planting.
This is incredibly hard to pull off. It works because the architecture is so good, and the relationship of the building to the ground plane is completely resolved.
Capability Brown loved this effect. I’ve also noticed it in paintings by Stubbs. Both artists are about contemporary with the original Mount Vernon, so the minimalism that looks current today is also a period look from the middle decades of the 18th century.
This is incredibly hard to pull off. It works because the architecture is so good, and the relationship of the building to the ground plane is completely resolved.
Capability Brown loved this effect. I’ve also noticed it in paintings by Stubbs. Both artists are about contemporary with the original Mount Vernon, so the minimalism that looks current today is also a period look from the middle decades of the 18th century.
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