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The ‘Alter Realist’ composition superimposes three separate aspects of the parkland and
gardens. Water acts as a common thread to the overall narrative. The inner space, which
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includes the statue of Mercury purchased by the 2 Lord Faringdon, is set within an orna-
mental lily pond located on the North Terrace with distant views of the surrounding Cots-
wold countryside. The classical structure with its central archway and two niches, where the
left-hand niche Dionysus half- brother of Apollo, god of excess is placed, and on the right
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stands Apollo, god of measure and proportion. Both are copies of 18 C French sculpture.
The structure was part of a scheme to make extensions to the east and west elevations of the
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house and were carried out in the 1930’s for the 2 Lord Faringdon. The foreground
squared lily pond is part of the water garden designed by the landscape designer Harold
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Peto. Towards the end of the 19 c the great gardens of renaissance Italy began to be a
source of inspiration, in what would become a revival termed the ‘Italian School’ of garden
design. One of the great exponents of this was Harold Peto, who in his own gardens at Iford
Manor in Wiltshire, laid out an Italian inspired garden which remains famous today. In
1904 and 1912, Harold Peto was commissioned to design a water garden based on the Ital-
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ian aesthetic by Alexander Henderson {1850-1934}1 Lord Faringdon in order to link the
neo-classical house (circa 1780) and the 20 acre lake below. The composition creates an
esoteric atmosphere, wherein the Gods each have their own distinct presence, a state of
timeless suspension devoid of earthly concerns. The convergence of individual aesthetic
expressions created for the gardens change in value and context through the ‘Alter Realist’
juxtaposed arrangement.

139373 Convergence of Aesthetics,
60 x 481/8 inches -o/c

Buscot Park, Oxfordshire.