John Dixon Hunt (ed.)

The Italian Garden

Herausgeber: Hunt, John Dixon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780521033923
• ISBN-10: 0521033926
• Artikelnr.: 22600054

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: making and
writing the Italian garden John Dixon Hunt; 1. Gardens in Italian
literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Lucia Battaglia
Ricci; 2. Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance: an essay in
post-aesthetic interpretation D. R. Edward Wright; 3. Christ the Gardener
and the chain of symbols: the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century
Ferrara G. Leoni; 4. The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth
to the eighteenth centuries Margherita Azzi Visentini; 5. The gardens of
the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth century Iris Lauterbach; 6.
Hard times in baroque Florence: the Boboli Garden and the grand ducal
public works administration Malcolm Campbell; 7. Fruit and flower gardens
from the neoclassical and romantic periods in Tuscany Allessandro Tosi; 8.
Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth century
Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno; 9. Sicilian gardens Gianni Pirrone; 10.
Jappelli's gardens: 'In dreams begin responsibilities' Raymond W. Gastil;
Index.