The Villa : : Form and Ideology of Country Houses / / James S. Ackerman.
A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In thi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 213 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 The Typology of the Villa
- 2 The Ancient Roman Villa
- 3 The Early Villas of the Medici
- 4 Palladio's Villas and their Predecessors
- 5 The Image of Country Life in Sixteenth-Centilry Villa Books
- Appendix The Advantages of Villa Life
- 6 The Palladian Villa in England
- 7 The Landscape Garden
- 8 Thomas Jefferson
- 9 The Picturesque
- 10 Andrew Jackson Downing and the American Romantic Villa
- 11 The Modern Villa: Wright and Le Corbusier
- Postscript
- Notes
- Sources of Illustrations
- Index