The Monster in the Garden : : The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design / / Luke Morgan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2015
• VerfasserIn: Morgan, Luke,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 48 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. Reframing the Renaissance Garden --; Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault --; Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous --; Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid --; Chapter 4. "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode --; Chapter 5. "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco --; Conclusion: Toward the Sublime --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812291872; 9783110438642; 9783110439687; 9783110665918
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812291872
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Luke Morgan.

Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.