Title & Author:

Clio in the Italian garden : twenty-first-century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee, editors.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2011]
©2011

Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; 32

Notes:
Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index.
The study of Italian gardens: a newly expanding field / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee -- Part I: Historiography of Italian gardens and landscape. Methodological changes in the study of Italian gardens from the 1970s to the 1990s: a personal itinerary / Mirka Beneš ; "Grafting the edelweiss on cactus plants": the 1931 Italian garden exhibition and its legacy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto -- Part II: The notion of territorial systems in Italian villa gardens. Systems of gardens in Italy: princely residences and villas in Rome and Latium, Savoy Piedmont, Royal Bourbon Naples, and Bagheria, Sicily / Marcello Fagiolo ; Residences of the emergent classes in two areas of southern Italy / Vincenzo Cazzato -- Part III: Agents of landscape transformation: from microstoria to policies of stewardship. From the Italian countryside to the Italianate landscape: peasants as gardeners and foreign observers in Italy, 1500-1850 / Mauro Ambrosoli ; Gardens and landscapes as "open-ended works" between continuity and transformation: notes on the role of historical studies / Lionella Scazzosi -- Part IV: Ways of seeing the landscape: reconstructing horizons of perception and the imaginary. The imaginary of generative nature in Italian mannerist gardens / Antonella Pietrogrande ; Toward an archaeology of the gaze: the perception and function of garden views in Italian Renaissance villas / Denis Ribouillault.

Summary:

This text examines the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780884023678 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0884023672 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens, Italian Congresses.
Gardens Italy History Congresses.
Jardins italiens Congrès.
Jardins Italie Histoire Congrès.
Architecture and Planning.
Gardens.
Gardens, Italian.
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsgestaltung
Garten.
Gardens Italy History.
Italy.
Italien

Form/genre:

Congress
Kongress Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC) 2007.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Beneš, Mirka, editor.
Lee, Michael G., 1962- editor.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (32nd : 2007)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272908
Call No.: BIB 206289
Status: Available