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Cecil Ross Pinsent FRIBA (5 May 1884 – 5 December 1963) was a British garden designer and architect, noted for the innovative gardens which he designed in Tuscany between 1909 and 1939. These imaginatively re-visited the concepts of Italian 16th-century designers. ==Biography== Cecil Ross Pinsent was born in Uruguay on 5 May 1884, at Montevideo, the son of Ross Pinsent (a businessman with railway interests) and Alice Pinsent.〔1891 Census of Hampstead, RG12/108, Folio 25, Page 43, Cecil R. Pinsent, 16, Moresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London.〕 He studied architecture in Britain. Between 1901 and 1906 he spent some time making topographic drawings of churches and houses in Britain and France; and by 1906 he was making similar drawings in Italy. He and his friend Geoffrey Scott, when touring Tuscany, met the American art historian, Bernard Berenson, and his wife, Mary Berenson. Berenson employed Scott as his librarian, and Pinsent assisted with work on Berenson's ''Villa I Tatti''. Through Berenson, Pinsent gained access to a rich clientele, drawn from the English-speaking community in Tuscany. His clients included Charles Alexander Loeser, Charles Augustus Strong; Mrs Alice Keppel; Lady Sybil Cutting and her daughter, the historian Iris Origo.〔http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/cecil_ross_pinsent Biography of Cecil Ross Pinsent reported as being from the Garden and Landscape Guide (Accessed March 22, 2011)〕 Pinsent began by making alterations to connoisseur Charles Alexander Loeser's Villa Torri Gattaia, in 1907; and went on to design gardens at Berenson's Villa I Tatti (1909-1914), Strong's Villa Le Balze (1911-1913), the Origos' La Foce (1927-1939) and Villa Capponi (from 1939). He also helped in design of garden Brdo in Slovenia. From 1939 to the late 1950s Pinsent lived in Britain - apart from a short visit to Italy in 1944-5. During this time in Italy, he worked on restoration of villas and gardens damaged by the War.〔http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/pinsent-capt.-cecil-r.〕 In the late 1950s he settled in Switzerland. Pinsent died on 5 December 1963, at Hilterfingen, Switzerland. Some of Pinsent's drawings are held in London in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cecil Pinsent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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