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Green worlds of Renaissance Venice / Jodi Cranston.
LIBRA N8205 .C73 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cranston, Jodi, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral art--Italy--Venice--16th century.
- Pastoral art.
- Art, Italian--Italy--Venice--16th century.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Gardens in art.
- Gardens--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.
- Gardens.
- History.
- Venice (Italy)--In art.
- Venice (Italy).
- Italy--Venice.
- Genre:
- Art.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Considers the development of the pastoral in sixteenth-century Venice as an urban phenomenon specific to the lagoon. Studies Venetian urban gardens as actual places, imaginary spaces, and fantasies of urban planning challenged by ecological concerns"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The greening of Venice
- The green worlds of pastoral painting in Venice
- Floating Arcadia : pastoral vedute of Venice
- Pastoral sculpture
- The exported pastoral : painting after the 1520s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271082028
- 027108202X
- OCLC:
- 1044773082
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