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The nature of authority : villa culture, landscape, and representation in eighteenth-century Lombardy /

Title
The nature of authority : villa culture, landscape, and representation in eighteenth-century Lombardy / Dianne Harris.
Author
Harris, Dianne Suzette.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003.

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Description
xxi, 239 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 27 cm.
Series Statement
Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 1
Uniform Title
Buildings, landscapes, and societies series ; 1.
Subjects
Note
  • Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
Contents
Landscape and enlightened absolutism -- Landscape and representation -- The printed view and Marc' Antonio Dal Re's Ville di delizie -- Mapping the landscape of reform -- Displaying the social landscape -- Villas of delight? -- The architecture of production and display -- Environmental absolutism: The villas Clerici -- Gardens in eighteenth-century Lombardy -- Gardens and social distinction.
ISBN
0271022167 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002007844
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library