Medici Gardens : : From Making to Design / / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the p...
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Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medici Gardens : From Making to Design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2008 1 online resource (328 p.) : 54 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Medici Gardens -- 2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art -- 3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism -- 4. Practice and Theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza -- Appendix B. Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles extracted from garden treatises, and suggests that, in the case of the gardens in Florence, garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.Drawing from Medici tax returns, inventories, and correspondence, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examines the transformation of these gardens from functional and pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. The Medici gardens of the fifteenth century were the result both of everyday living and of a poetic activity that was influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands.Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the author compares the making of actual gardens to that of the literary pleasances described by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ficino. Although the fictional gardens appear "designed" in that their place within literary works is carefully thought through, their actual counterparts are the product of a modus operandi, indebted to horticultural knowledge handed down from one generation to another in a slowly evolving tradition. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Gardens in art. Gardens Italy Florence History 15th century. Gardens Italy Tuscany History 15th century. ARCHITECTURE / Landscape. bisacsh Architecture. Fine Art. Garden History. print 9780812240726 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512821581 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512821581 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512821581/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Medici Gardens -- 2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art -- 3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism -- 4. Practice and Theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza -- Appendix B. Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgments -- Index |
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