Medici Gardens : From Making to Design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella., author.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of.

Gardens in art.

Gardens--Italy--Tuscany--History--15th century.

Gardens.

Gardens--Italy--Florence--History--15th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Medici Gardens: From Making to Design 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 reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles extracted from garden treatises, and suggests that, in the case of the gardens in Florence, garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.Drawing from Medici tax returns, inventories, and correspondence, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examines the transformation of these gardens from functional and pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. The Medici gardens of the fifteenth century were the result both of everyday living and of a poetic activity that was influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands.Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the author compares the making of actual gardens to that of the literary pleasances described by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ficino. Although the fictional gardens appear "designed" in that their place within literary works is carefully thought through, their actual counterparts are the product of a modus operandi, indebted to horticultural knowledge handed down from one generation to another in a slowly evolving tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Medici Gardens

2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art

3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism

4. Practice and Theory

Conclusion

Appendix A. Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza

Appendix B. Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi

Notes

Bibliography

Photographic Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 01., 2017)

ISBN:

9781512821581

1512821586

OCLC:

1017608359