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Inventing the garden / Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni, with Paola Gallo ; translated by David Stanton.
- Title
- Inventing the garden / Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni, with Paola Gallo ; translated by David Stanton.
- Author
- Vercelloni, Matteo, 1961-
- Publication
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | SB451 .V46513 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 275 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Invenzione del giardino occidentale. English
- Alternative Title
- Invenzione del giardino occidentale.
- Subject
- Gardens > History
- Note
- Translation of: L'invenzione del giardino occidentale.
- "Italian edition (c) 2009 by Jaca Book S.p.A., Milan"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The invention of the garden -- Hortus conclusus -- The humanistic dream and the Italian Renaissance garden -- Material culture, scientific curiosities, and exoticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The persistence of the Italian model and Baroque restlessness -- The French formal garden -- An aesthetic revolution: the landscape garden -- Structures for the romantic garden -- Aesthetics, history, and botany in the nineteenth-century garden -- From the rediscovery of flowers to the wild garden -- A garden for everyone -- The American garden -- The twentieth century -- Into the new century.
- ISBN
- 9781606060476 (hardcover)
- 1606060473 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2010010538
- 99943029562
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries