In pictures: The Art of the Garden
Discover how gardens were celebrated in art from the 16th to the 20th centuries in an exhibition that opens at Buckingham Palace in March

A View of the Cascade, Bushy Park Water Gardens, by Marco Ricci, c1715

The Gardens at Kew, by Johan Jacob Schalch, c1760

Pleasure Garden with a Maze, by Lodewijk Toeput (Pozzoserrato), c1579-84

Woodcut of the Garden of Eden, by Harmann Schedel, 1493

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615

Seven Couples in a Garden, by Mir 'Ali Sir Nava'l, c1510

Bleeding Heart, form the workshop of Carl Fabergé, c1900
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden is on show at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from 20 March–11 October. For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.royalcollection.org.uk

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