This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and statecraft; villas in their broader territorial setting; landscape and representation; gender and the garden; and the social history of garden construction, among other topics. Providing an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies, Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France also places these sites within the context of European intellectual history, material culture studies, and cultural landscape studies.
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'This is an outstanding publication that anyone interested in early modern history will want to add to his or her collection. The introduction alone insures the essential value of the book; no student of Italian or French gardens will want to do without Mirka Benes's review of the literature which will now become the source of first reference for researchers. This collection of intelligently constructed and carefully researched essays will be an essential addition to both university and home libraries. Thankfully the original contributions are matched by the physical qualities of the volume, which is both well-produced and richly illustrated.' The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
'This collection of intelligently constructed and carefully researched essays will be an essential addition to both university and home libraries. Thankfully, the original contributions are matched by the physical qualities of the volume, which is both well produced and richly illustrated.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
'This collection of intelligently constructed and carefully researched essays will be an essential addition to both university and home libraries. Thankfully, the original contributions are matched by the physical qualities of the volume, which is both well produced and richly illustrated.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays provide an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies.
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The grand gardens in Italy that were created over roughly three centuries, the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth, for dukes, popes, and cardinals as well as for patricians with wealth and status, are generally considered in the garden literature to constitute a distinct and unified Italian garden tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
detto lago, giardino italiano, parterre designs, comuni rurali, floral symbolism, villa views, del giardino, petites heures, garden tradition, garden history, maison rustique, jardin anglais, wine keg, villa owners, baroque gardens, des jardins, classical pastoral, villa gardens, les jardins, main pavilion, political address Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dal Re, Venaria Reale, Fountain of Hercules, Temple of Diana, Dumbarton Oaks, Villa Borghese, Diane de Poitiers, Roman Campagna, Carlo Emanuele, Louis de Carmontelle, Nationale de France, Claude Lorrain, Ruined Castle, Louis Le Vau, Palazzo Mondragone, Villa Pamphilj, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Harvard University, Lake Como, Pliny the Elder, Photo Archive, Veduta del Palazzo, Villa Mondragone, Villa Pisani New!
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The grand gardens in Italy that were created over roughly three centuries, the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth, for dukes, popes, and cardinals as well as for patricians with wealth and status, are generally considered in the garden literature to constitute a distinct and unified Italian garden tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
detto lago, giardino italiano, parterre designs, comuni rurali, floral symbolism, villa views, del giardino, petites heures, garden tradition, garden history, maison rustique, jardin anglais, wine keg, villa owners, baroque gardens, des jardins, classical pastoral, villa gardens, les jardins, main pavilion, political address Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dal Re, Venaria Reale, Fountain of Hercules, Temple of Diana, Dumbarton Oaks, Villa Borghese, Diane de Poitiers, Roman Campagna, Carlo Emanuele, Louis de Carmontelle, Nationale de France, Claude Lorrain, Ruined Castle, Louis Le Vau, Palazzo Mondragone, Villa Pamphilj, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Harvard University, Lake Como, Pliny the Elder, Photo Archive, Veduta del Palazzo, Villa Mondragone, Villa Pisani New!
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- The Pastoral Landscape (Studies in the History of Art) by John Dixon Hunt on 6 pages
- The Court Society (Collected Works of Norbert Elias 2) by Norbert Elias on 5 pages
- Distance Points: Studies in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture by James S. Ackerman on 4 pages
- History of Italy by William Thomas on 4 pages
- Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) by Chandra Mukerji in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Elizabeth Hyde in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Marc Treib in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens by Rebecca W. Bushnell on page 117
- The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by William J. Kennedy in Back Matter
- The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence by Cristina Acidini Luchinat in Back Matter
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