The Monster in the Garden : The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design /

Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Luke (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Landscape design.
Gardens > Symbolic aspects.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Renaissance.
Amenagement paysager > Italie > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Jardins > Meubles et ornements > Italie > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Jardins > Aspect symbolique > Italie > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Grotesque > Italie > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Monstres > Italie > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Gardens, Renaissance > Italy > Design > History > 16th century.
Landscape design > Italy > History > 16th century.
Garden ornaments and furniture > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century.
Gardens > Symbolic aspects > Italy > History > 16th century.
Grotesque > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century.
Monsters > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century.
Italy.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780812291872

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