Main entry:

Coffin, David R.

Title & Author:

Magnificent buildings, splendid gardens / David R. Coffin ; edited by Vanessa Bezemer Sellers.

Publication:

Princeton : Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University : in association with Princeton University Press, ©2008.

Description:

xix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture and Architects. Pirro Ligorio and decoration of the late sixteenth century at Ferrara -- Pirro Ligorio on the nobility of the arts -- Pope Innocent VIII and the Villa Belvedere -- Pope Marcellus II and architecture -- The self-image of the Roman villa during the Renaissance -- Some architectural drawings of Giovan Battista Aleotti -- Padre Guarino Guarini in Paris -- Gardens and landscape designers. John Evelyn at Tivoli -- Some aspects of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia -- The "Lex Hortorum" and access to gardens of Latium during the Renaissance -- The study of the history of the Italian garden until the first Dumbarton Oaks colloquium -- The gardens of Venice -- Repton's "Red Book" for Beaudesert -- The Elysian Fields of Rousham -- Venus in the eighteenth-century English garden -- Venus in the garden of Wilton House -- Drawings. Tintoretto and the Medici tombs -- A drawing by Pietro da Cortona for his fresco of the Age of iron -- Scholars. Earl Baldwin Smith -- In memoriam: Erwin Panofsky.

Summary:

"Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to private Renaissance gardens, elucidating the evolving meaning of images of the goddess Venus in English gardens, and identifying the significance of the decorative programs of monuments as diverse as the Villa Belvedere in Rome and the eighteenth-century gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780691136646 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691136645 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780691136776 (pbk.)
0691136777 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architecture Italy 16th century.
Art, Italian 16th century.
Gardens, Italian.
Gardens, English.
Architecture Italie 16e siècle.
Art italien 16e siècle.
Jardins italiens.
Jardins anglais.
21.62 history of architecture.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Architecture.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Art, Italian.
Gartengestaltung
Villa
Architects.
Gardens.
Landscape gardening.
Drawings.
Arkitektur historia.
Renässansen.
Trädgårdar historia.
Italy.
Italien
England.
historische gebouwen
historic buildings
monumenten
monuments
tuinen
gardens
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
beeldhouwwerk
sculpture
kunstwerken
works of art
schone kunsten
fine arts
geschiedenis
history
italy
engeland
england
Historical Buildings, Monuments
Garden History
Historische gebouwen en monumenten
Tuinhistorie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer.
Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256206
Call No.: BIB 186525
Status: Available