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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 54 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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