Title & Author:

The Italian garden : art, design, and culture / edited by John Dixon Hunt.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Description:

xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gardens in Italian literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Lucia Battaglia Ricci -- Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance: an essay in post-aesthetic interpretation / D.R. Edward Wright -- Christ the gardener and the chain of symbols: the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century Ferrara / G. Leoni -- The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Margherita Azzi Visentini -- The gardens of the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth century / Iris Lauterbach -- Hard times in baroque Florence: the Boboli garden and the grand ducal public works administration / Malcolm Campbell -- Fruit and flower gardens from the neoclassical and romantic periods in Tuscany / Alessandro Tosi -- Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth century / Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno -- Sicilian gardens / Gianni Pirrone -- Jappelli's gardens: "in dreams begin responsibilities" / Raymond W. Gastil.

Summary:

"Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the middle ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara to Florence." "The authors are a distinguished group of Italian, American, English and German scholars, with different backgrounds in art history, literature, architecture, planning, and cultural history. The explorations of the subject from these different perspectives illuminate not only their own disciplines, but are concerned to make many fresh connections between garden art and the politics of nationalism, between the art of gardens and urban infrastructure, between cultural movements like freemasonry and site planning, between design and planting materials. The book offers therefore a narrative of the garden by selecting ten high points of its history, which are introduced with a consideration by the volume editor of the fresh challenges to contemporary Italian garden history."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521443539 (hardback)
9780521443531 (hardback)
0521033926 (paperback)
9780521033923 (paperback)

Subject:

Gardens, Italian History.
Gardens Italy History.
Jardins italiens Histoire.
Jardins Italie Histoire.
Gardens
Gardens, Italian
Gartenkunst
Geschichte
Tuinarchitectuur.
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Hunt, John Dixon, editor.
Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 111239
Call No.: ID SB457.85.I835; ID:96-B1897
Status: Available