Fountains Statues And Flowers

Author : Elisabeth B. MacDougall
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022169
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fountains, Statues, and Flowers written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359158
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.

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Total Pages : 892 pages
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Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The Rutgers Art Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Flower-Garden: Containing Directions for the Cultivation of All Garden Flowers ... A New Edition. [By Charles Macintosh. With Engraved Plates.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book House & Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300242565
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Oak Spring Flora written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.

Author : Thomas Hogg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tulip, Hyacinth, Rose, and Other Flowers written by Thomas Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Therese O'Malley
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022404
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening written by Therese O'Malley and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a pivotal figure in 17th-century intellectual life in England. The contributors approach him and his work from diverse disciplines: architectural and intellectual history and histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present the "Elysium Britannicum" as a central document of late European humanism.

Author : George Ripley
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Total Pages : 896 pages
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Download or read book The American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: