Clio in the Italian garden : twenty-first-century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Beneš, Mirka.

Lee, Michael G., 1962-

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Conference Name:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (32nd : 2007)

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; 32.

Dumbarton Oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens, Italian--Congresses.

Gardens, Italian.

Gardens--Italy--History--Congresses.

Gardens.

History.

Italy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2011]

Contents:

The study of Italian gardens: a newly expanding field / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee

Part I: Historiography of Italian gardens and landscape. Methodological changes in the study of Italian gardens from the 1970s to the 1990s: a personal itinerary / Mirka Beneš ; "Grafting the edelweiss on cactus plants": the 1931 Italian garden exhibition and its legacy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

Part II: The notion of territorial systems in Italian villa gardens. Systems of gardens in Italy: princely residences and villas in Rome and Latium, Savoy Piedmont, Royal Bourbon Naples, and Bagheria, Sicily / Marcello Fagiolo ; Residences of the emergent classes in two areas of southern Italy / Vincenzo Cazzato

Part III: Agents of landscape transformation: from microstoria to policies of stewardship. From the Italian countryside to the Italianate landscape: peasants as gardeners and foreign observers in Italy, 1500-1850 / Mauro Ambrosoli ; Gardens and landscapes as "open-ended works" between continuity and transformation: notes on the role of historical studies / Lionella Scazzosi

Part IV: Ways of seeing the landscape: reconstructing horizons of perception and the imaginary. The imaginary of generative nature in Italian mannerist gardens / Antonella Pietrogrande ; Toward an archaeology of the gaze: the perception and function of garden views in Italian Renaissance villas / Denis Ribouillault.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

0884023672

9780884023678

OCLC:

657270951

Publisher Number:

99947455893