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Cultivated power : flowers, culture, and politics in the reign of Louis XIV /
"Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Penn studies in landscape architecture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Disorderly Flowers
- Floral Seduction: Death, Sex, and Flowers
- Trading on the Power of Flowers
- Refashioning the Culture of Flowers in Early Modern France
- Curiosity and Flowers
- The Sweet Society of the Curious Florists
- Cultivating the Flower
- The Florists' Flowers
- Unlocking the Door to the Temple of Flora
- Cultivating the Man
- The Theater of the Goddess of Flowers
- Nature into Art
- "Jardin d'Hyver," or Flowers in Print
- Cultivating the King
- Royal Precedents
- Flowers in the Gardens of Louis XIV
- Floral Merchantilism
- Flowers and the "Histoire du Roi"
- Extract of the Inventory ... by Sieur Cottereau of Flowering Plants and Bulbs that He Offers to Furnish for the Gardens of the Royal Households
- Plants Included in Jean Donneau de Vise's Histoire de Louis le Grand.