Landscape and the Enlightenment

It is interesting to see how the landscape can be physically altered just because of the cultural revolution know as the Enlightenment. While many European countries underwent major transformations during the Renaissance period of the 13th to 17th centuries, it had a specific impact on each nation politically, cultural, and environmentally. During this age of enlightenment, two countries in particular, Italy and France, had undergone drastic changes which can be visibly seen through its impact on the surrounding lands. Italy experienced it's Renaissance in the 13th to 16th century, which generally had a dissimilar result, in respect to landscape design, than the French Renaissance of the 17th century. More specifically, the Renaissance led to alterations in the culture of these two European countries which affected the theory, context, and elements of landscape design.
It is necessary to understand the environment and climate to fully discern what natural limitations lie within the landscape. …