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The history of gardens in painting / Nils Büttner ; translated by Russsell Stockman.
Fine Arts Library ND1460.G37 B8813 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Büttner, Nils.
- Standardized Title:
- Gemälte Garten. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens in art--History.
- Gardens in art.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Contents:
- The realm of Venus
- Medieval images of the world and of gardens
- Court and domestic gardens and the garden of love
- Visions of paradise
- The enclosed garden
- Pictorial rhetoric
- Precedents and symbols
- New views
- ancient ideals
- Old subjects
- new ideals
- Between sense and sensuality
- Gardens of the Impressionists
- Harmony parallel to nature
- Impression and expression
- Continuation and forecast.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 227-234) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780789209931
- 0789209934
- OCLC:
- 209748537
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