Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France
Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France
Dianne Harris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and statecraft; villas in their broader territorial setting; landscape and representation; gender and the garden; and the social history of garden construction, among other topics. Providing an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies, Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France also places these sites within the context of European intellectual history, material culture studies, and cultural landscape studies.
- Broadly contextual and interdisciplinary approach of the essays
- Provides an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies
Reviews & endorsements
'This is an outstanding publication that anyone interested in early modern history will want to add to his or her collection. The introduction alone insures the essential value of the book; no student of Italian or French gardens will want to do without Mirka Benes's review of the literature which will now become the source of first reference for researchers. This collection of intelligently constructed and carefully researched essays will be an essential addition to both university and home libraries. Thankfully the original contributions are matched by the physical qualities of the volume, which is both well-produced and richly illustrated.' The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
'This collection of intelligently constructed and carefully researched essays will be an essential addition to both university and home libraries. Thankfully, the original contributions are matched by the physical qualities of the volume, which is both well produced and richly illustrated.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Product details
June 2001Hardback
9780521782258
448 pages
262 × 188 × 34 mm
1.259kg
167 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print September 2003
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Italian and French gardens: a century of historical study (1900–2000) Mirka Benes
- Introduction: landscape in context Dianne Harris
- 1. Italy is garden: the idea of Italy and the Italian garden tradition Claudia Lazzaro
- 2. Pressed labor and Pratolino: social imagery and social reality at a Medici garden Suzanne Butters
- 3. Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque villa and in Claude Lorrain: myths and realities of the Roman campagna Mirka Benes
- 4. '… dall'Agricoltura venne la Nobilitá …': the rural landscape of the Villa Mondragone near Frascati Tracy Ehrlich
- 5. Venaria Reale: ambition and imitation in a seventeenth-century villa Elisabeth Blair MacDougall
- 6. Landscape and representation: the printed view and Marc'Antonio Dal Re's Ville didelizie Dianne Harris
- 7. Women in the garden of allegory: Catherine de'Medici and the locus of female rule Sheila ffolliott
- 8. Gender, flowers, and the Baroque nature of kinship Elizabeth Hyde
- 9. Dress and address: garden design and material identity in seventeenth-century France Chandra Mukerji
- 10. Vaux-le-Vicomte: Le Vau's ambition Hilary Ballon
- 11. 'This is not a jarden anglais': Carmontelle, the Jardin de Monceau, and irregular garden design in late eighteenth-century France David Hays.
