Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan.
Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan.
Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan.
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Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N712.092/5
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Madman, martyr, magus : the critical reception of Salomon de Caus -- Salomon de Caus, 1576-1626 -- The Coudenberg Palace grottoes -- The prince's engineer : Salomon de Caus in London -- Between the workshop and the library : Salomon de Caus as a reader -- Theory into practice : the Hortus Palatinus.
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Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
2006.
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"The first comprehensive book on this protean figure, Nature as Model sifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus's own writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure. In doing so, it clarifies numerous hitherto unresolved problems in his biography a...
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Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design / Luke Morgan.
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Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. )
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N712.092/5
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9780812239638
0812239636 (cloth : alk. paper)
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712.092 B
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991022209369702626
