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The hermit in the garden : from Imperial Rome to ornamental gnome /
Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commiss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those. |
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| Notas: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 3, 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191644481 019164448X 9780199696994 0199696993 9781299277052 1299277055 |