Medici gardens : from making to design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
Medici gardens : from making to design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
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N712.6094/6
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 306 p. : ill., map, plans ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Medici Gardens -- Trebbio and Cafaggiolo -- Careggi -- Fiesole -- Ch. 2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art -- Ch. 3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism -- Petrarch and Boccaccio -- Marsilio Ficino and the Neoplatonic Pleasance -- Ch. 4. Practice and Theory -- The Design of the Garden...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles ex...
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Medici gardens : from making to design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
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Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
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c2008.
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N712.6094/6
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74VMQomJ60Qy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQomJ60Qy
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ISBN
9780812240726 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812240723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
712.60945511
MMS ID
991000538939702626
