Garden and Grove : : The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 / / John Dixon Hunt.
Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 113 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- List of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the 1996 Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. Italy: The Garden of the World
- 1. The Garden on the Grand Tour
- 2. Classical Ground And Classical Gardens
- 3. Villa and Vigna
- 4. Ovid in the garden
- 5. Garden and theatre
- 6. Cabinets of curiosity
- 7. Variety
- 8. Art and Nature
- Part Two. England: The World of the Garden
- 9. 'My Patterne for a Countrey Seat'
- 10. 'The Way Of Italian Gardens'
- 11. 'Palladian' Gardening
- Notes
- Index