Garden and grove : the Italian Renaissance garden in the English imagination, 1600-1750 /

Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunt, John Dixon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Edición:1st pbk. ed.
Colección:Franklin Jasper Walls lectures.
Temas:
Gardens, English > Italian influences.
Gardens, Italian > Influence.
Gardens, Renaissance > England.
Gardens, Renaissance > Italy > Influence.
Jardins italiens > Influence.
Jardins de la Renaissance > Angleterre.
Jardins de la Renaissance > Italie > Influence.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
GARDENING > Garden Design.
GARDENING > Landscape.
Gardens, Renaissance.
Gardens, Renaissance > Influence.
Jardins > Italie.
Jardins > Grande-Bretagne > Angleterre (GB) > Influence italienne.
Jardins anglais > influence italienne.
Jardins de la Renaissance > Italie.
England.
Italy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface to the 1996 Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Garden on the Grand Tour
  • 2. Classical Ground And Classical Gardens
  • 3. Villa and Vigna
  • 4. Ovid in the garden
  • 5. Garden and theatre
  • 6. Cabinets of curiosity
  • 7. Variety
  • 8. Art and Nature
  • 9. 'My Patterne for a Countrey Seat'
  • 10. 'The Way Of Italian Gardens'
  • 11. 'Palladian' Gardening
  • Notes
  • Index

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