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Italian gardens : a cultural history / Helena Attlee ; special photography by Alex Ramsay.
Fine Arts Library SB466.I8 A82 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attlee, Helena, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--Italy--History.
- Gardens.
- Gardens--Italy--Design--History.
- Gardens, Italian.
- Design.
- History.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Edition:
- First Frances Lincoln edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : F. Lincoln, [2006]
- Summary:
- In this ravishing new book, illustrated with con- temporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells their story. She starts with Petrarch - stil looking to medieval chronicles for advice on how and when to plant - and goes on to the Renaissance and those first gardens to emerge from architects'
- Contents:
- I Cultivated ideas: Early Renaissance 1450-1504 49
- II Medici gardeners: Renaissance 1518-1550 25
- III Botanical revolution: Botanical gardens and treatises 1536-1600 41
- IV Musical statues: High Renaissance 1560-1573 51
- V Esoteric jokes: Mannerism 1550-1580 75
- VI Formal splendour: Baroque 1598-1786 91
- VII Horticultural extremes: Plant collections 1600-1700 117
- VIII Watering the guests: Garden entertainments 1530-1850 131
- IX Foreign influence: English and French style 1696-1783 155
- X International style: European fashions 1800-1867 181
- XI An open ending: The modern garden 1902-1968 191
- Gardens to visit 229
- Picture acknowledgement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0711226474
- 9780711226470
- OCLC:
- 85771186
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