意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克园林中水声的应用

The Sound of Water in the Gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Italy

巧妙控制水声以产生美学和治疗效果,这是意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克园林的精华部分。分析了它所利用的特殊装置(16—17世纪意大利喷泉、石窟和水神庙)。典型的声音展示包括了主题、含义和当代的各种代表性构思,以及使声景多样化的液压和气动技术。这样的一个旨在激发想象力、喜悦和娱乐的人工声波刺激,其基本目的是获得情感上的反应,这与意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克园林的目的相一致,与其说是为睿智的讨论,或为追求艺术和文学而创建的场所,不如说是为提供使身心获得愉悦的场所。

The sound of water, skillfully manipulated to produce both aesthetic and therapeutic effects, was an essential part of garden experience in Renaissance and Baroque Italy： This essay examines the specific settings where it was exploited （sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Italian fountains, grottos, and nymphaea）; the subject matter, meaning, and contemporary＂ reception of different representational conceits that such acoustic display typically involved;and the hydraulic and pneumatic technologies that enabled this diverse soundscape. The author argues that these artificial sonic stimuli--intended to stimulate imagination as well as delight and amuse--were primarily aimed at an emotive response, in keeping with the purpose of Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens as the sites of mental and physical recreation rather settings for intellectual discussions or alrtistic and literary pursuits.