Medici Gardens

Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821586
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medici Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

Author : Katie Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000521001
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating the Renaissance written by Katie Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the Medici family dominated European life. While promoting both arts and sciences, the Medici helped create a new style of architecture, present a new idea of villa life and promote the novel idea of living in harmony with nature. Used variously for pleasure and sports, scholarly and amorous liaisons, commercial enterprise and botanical experimentation, their villas both expressed and influenced contemporary ideas on politics, philosophy, art and design. Each patron's public interests and private passions, as well as the architects, artists and philosophers they employed, are examined. Through a chronological approach, this book reveals how the villas were used, their reception by contemporary commentators, their legacy and their current state five centuries after they were first built. Lavishly illustrated, Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture, horticulture, landscape history, philosophy, art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy.

Author : Evelyn March Phillipps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Italy written by Evelyn March Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift of Albert R. Martin.

Author : Rose Standish Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Pleasure Gardens written by Rose Standish Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorenza De' Medici Stucchi
Publisher : Fawcett Books
ISBN 13 : 9780449904411
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance of Italian Gardens written by Lorenza De' Medici Stucchi and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes thirty modern Italian gardens in Genoa, Tuscany, Lombardy, and other regions of the country

Author : Penelope Hobhouse
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981307
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden Lover's Guide to Italy written by Penelope Hobhouse and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative new series of guidebooks to the gardens of Europe is the perfect companion for any garden enthusiast, whether tourist or armchair traveler. Each title is a richly illustrated in-depth guide to over 100 gardens, from the famous to little-known hidden treasures, and features colorful photography and easy-to-read illustrations commissioned especially for this series. Also included are maps, directions, complete visitor information, special features, and neighboring sites of interest. Each guide, written by a gardening expert, begins with a comprehensive background on the country's garden history and local climate. The most significant gardens in each volume are featured in even greater detail, accompanied by illustrated plans of the gardens and close-up views of particular features. The numerous color photographs and maps show travelers what awaits at each garden. The Garden Lover's Guides are indispensible aids for those planning European travel itineraries. The Garden Lover's Guide to Britain, written by Patrick Taylor, ranges from the sweeping views of Stourhead to the jungle-like ambiance of Inverewe on the Scottish coast. The Garden Lover's Guide to Italy includes the Villa del Balbianello at Lake Como, Roman villa gardens, and the exotic, sub-tropical parks of Sicily.

Author : Lorenza De'Medici
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781851458028
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance of Italian Gardens written by Lorenza De'Medici and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712861
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of the Gods written by Christopher McIntosh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gardens of the Gods" reveals the symbolic language of garden design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of Islam, those of Renaissance Italy with their richly mythological imagery, the landscaped parks of England, the gardens of New Harmony in the US and some striking, modern examples of symbolic gardens, including the Tarot Garden of the sculptress Niki de Saint Phalle in Italy. This illustrated book also includes a chapter with suggestions for creating a "garden of meaning" and a selected catalogue of plants with symbolic or mythological associations. Based on ten years of research, travel and curiostiy, this text is also the result of a personal quest - to reveal the mystical codes written in the astonishing worlds of gardens worldwide.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House & Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luke Morgan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291875
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster in the Garden written by Luke Morgan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.