Fountains, statues, and flowers : studies in Italian gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.

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MacDougall, Elisabeth B.

Title & Author:

Fountains, statues, and flowers : studies in Italian gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
pt. I. The sixteenth century. An introduction to Roman gardens of the sixteenth century -- Il Giardino all'Antico : Roman statuary and Italian Renaissance gardens -- The sleeping nymph : origins of a humanist fountain type -- L'Ingegnoso Artifizio : sixteenth-century garden fountains in Rome -- Ars Hortulorum : sixteenth-century iconography and literary theory in Italy -- Imitation and invention : language and decoration in Roman Renaissance gardens -- A circus, a wild man, and a dragon : family history and the Villa Mattei -- pt. II. The seventeenth century. Venaria Reale : ambition and imitation in a seventeenth-century villa -- A cardinal's bulb garden : a Giardino Segreto at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

ISBN:

0884022161
9780884022169

Subject:

Gardens, Italian History 16th century.
Gardens, Italian History 17th century.
Gardens Italy History 16th century.
Gardens Italy History 17th century.
Jardins italiens Histoire 16e siècle.
Jardins italiens Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins Italie Histoire 16e siècle.
Jardins Italie Histoire 17e siècle.
Gardens.
Gardens, Italian.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Iconografie.
Jardins (história;século 16;século 17) Itália.
Arquitetura paisagística.
Italy.
bruggen
bridges
gebouwen
buildings
ontwerp
design
tentoonstellingen
exhibitions
tuinen
geschiedenis
history
italy
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
monumenten
monuments
bloembollen
ornamental bulbs
paden
paths
wegen
roads
structuren
structures
renaissance
versiering
decoration
Garden History
Tuinhistorie
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

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History.

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Location: Library main 110157
Call No.: ID SB457.85.M33; ID:96-B1662
Status: Available

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