Space designed to nourish the heart, incite poetic reverie, and provide a place of peaceful retreat: a precious terrain feeding the creative imagination, according to 17th c. Chinese texts. The hermit-like aesthetic life led by the scholar had a profound impact on Chinese garden-design. See Ji Cheng; philosopher’s garden; sanctuary. Photo from Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, 2023. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)
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