Main entry:

Pizzoni, Filippo.

Title & Author:

The garden : a history in landscape and art / Filippo Pizzoni.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli International, 1999.

Description:

263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Il giardino, arte e storia.
Includes bibliographical references (page 262).
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: The rediscovery of nature -- A gift from Islam: the Arab garden -- Arab Influence on Italian Gardens -- The medieval garden: all heaven in a grain of sand -- A Basic Text: The De Ruralium Commodorum -- An ideal place to contemplate beauty -- Giardini Segreti -- The Representation of the Garden: Illuminations -- The sixteenth century: From the classical to the wonderful -- The Italian Renaissance garden: nature and architecture at one -- Nymphaea, Grottoes and Giochi D'Acqua -- From Renaissance to Mannerism -- Allegory and Caprice: The Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo -- A model for all Europe -- Villandry: the Recreation of a Distant Past -- The Representation of the Garden: Property Depicted as a Display of Power -- The seventeenth century: The theatre of nature -- The Grand Siecle of the French garden -- Parterres and Bosquets -- The age of the Baroque in Europe -- Azulejo Gardens in Portugal -- The Dutch garden: water and colour triumphant -- Seventeenth-Century Holland: Flowers Worth Their Weight in Gold -- The Representation of the Garden: the Boundless Garden and the Bird's-Eye View -- The eighteenth century: The return to Arcadia -- Splendour and originality in the German garden -- Felix Austria -- The development of the classical garden in Europe -- Eastern Europe: Masterpieces Reclaimed -- The Arcadian landscape -- The Jardin Anglais in Europe -- The Representation of the Garden: Man and Garden as Protagonists in Eighteenth-Century Engravings.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Presents a history of gardens, from medieval times through the twentieth century, and illustrates the importance of gardens in history and culture.

ISBN:

0847822184
9780847822188

Subject:

Gardens Europe History.
Historic gardens Europe.
Jardins Europe Histoire.
Jardins historiques Europe.
Gardens.
Historic gardens.
Gardens Europe.
Landscape architecture Europe.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207623
Call No.: SB466.E9 P5 1999
Status: Available