Main entry:

Beneš, Mirka.

Title & Author:

Villas and gardens in early modern Italy and France / Mirka Beneš, Dianne Harris.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-419) and index.
The Italian States -- Italy is a garden: the idea of Italy and the Italian garden tradition -- pressed labor and pratolino: social imagery and social reality at a medici garden -- pastoralism in the Roman Baroque villa and in Claude Lorrain: myths and realities -- dall'Agricultura venne la Bobilita -- the rural landscape of the Villa Mondragone near Frascati Tracy Ehrlich -- Venaria Reale: ambition and imitation in a seventeenth-century villa Elisabeth Blais -- Landscape and representation: the printed view and Marc'Antonio Dal Re's Ville di delizie -- The French Court -- women in the garden of allegory : Catherine de'Medici and the locus of female rule -- Gender, flowers, and the Baroque nature of kinship Elizabeth Hyde -- dress and adress: garden design and maerial identity in seventeenth-century France -- Vaux-le-Vicmte: Le Vau's ambition Hilary Ballon -- 'This is not a jarden anglais': Carmontelle, the Jardin de Monceau, and irregular garden design in late-eighteenth-century France.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521782252
9780521782258

Subject:

Gardens Italy History.
Gardens France History.
Architecture, Domestic Italy History.
Architecture, Domestic France History.
Jardins Italie Histoire.
Jardins France Histoire.
Architecture domestique Italie Histoire.
Villas France Histoire.
Giardini Italia Storia.
Giardini Francia Storia.
Ville Italia Storia.
Ville Francia Storia.
Architecture, Domestic.
Gardens.
Manners and customs.
Adelshaus
Gartenkunst
Villa
Garten
Villa's.
Tuinen.
Italy Social life and customs.
France Social life and customs.
Italie Mœurs et coutumes.
France Mœurs et coutumes.
Italia Vita sociale.
Francia Vita sociale.
France.
Italy.
Frankreich
Italien
Geschichte 1500-1800

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Harris, Dianne Suzette.
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216889
Call No.: SB451.36.I8 B4 2001
Status: Available