Jacobean Mannerist garden
Until 1603, when James VI of Scotland ascended to the Throne as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, England had been to some extent isolated from artistic developments on the Continent during the reign of Elizabeth I. With the ascension of the Stuarts, however, contacts were renewed with Italian art… The inspiration for the Mannerist fountain-and-grotto mania which gripped Jacobean England was the celebrated garden of Pratolino, outside Florence, filtered through French gardens such as those at Fontainebleau and St Germain-en-Laye… (Curl & Wilson, 2016)