Katie Campbell

Cultivating the Renaissance

A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781032062105
• ISBN-10: 103206210X
• Artikelnr.: 62570053

Autorenporträt

Katie Campbell is a writer and garden historian. She leads art and garden tours, lectures widely and has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham universities. Her most recent book, British Gardens in Time, accompanied the BBC television series. Earlier books include Paradise of Exiles, Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design and Policies and Pleasances.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Early Renaissance Villa as Humanist Retreat 1. Cafaggiolo:
Averardo's Villa Farm 2. Il Trebbio: Giovanni's Villa Fortress 3. Palazzo
Medici: Cosimo's Antique-style Urban Villa 4. Carreggi: Cosimo's Humanist
Retreat 5. Villa Medici: Giovanni's Gentleman's Villa Part 2: The High
Renaissance Villa as Royal Court 6. Poggio a Caiano: Lorenzo's Villa Temple
7. Castello: Cosimo I's Rural Royal Court 8. Pitti Palace/Boboli Gardens:
Eleanora's rus in urbe 9. Cerutto Guido and Seravezza: Cosimo I's Villa
Outposts Part 3: The Late Renaissance Villa as Pleasure Palace 10.
Pratolino: Francesco's Villa of Marvels 11. Poggio Imperiale: Isabella's
Arcadian Fantasy 12. Le Petraia: Ferdinando's Domestic Retreat 13. La
Magia, Ambrogiana, Artimino: Ferdinando's Hunting Outposts