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The garden: a history in landscape and art
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Rizzoli International
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: The rediscovery of nature
A gift from Islam: the Arab garden
Arab Influence on Italian Gardens
The medieval garden: all heaven in a grain of sand
A Basic Text: The De Ruralium Commodorum
An ideal place to contemplate beauty
Giardini Segreti
The Representation of the Garden: Illuminations
The sixteenth century: From the classical to the wonderful
The Italian Renaissance garden: nature and architecture at one
Nymphaea, Grottoes and Giochi D'Acqua
From Renaissance to Mannerism
Allegory and Caprice: The Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo
A model for all Europe
Villandry: the Recreation of a Distant Past
The Representation of the Garden: Property Depicted as a Display of Power
The seventeenth century: The theatre of nature
The Grand Siecle of the French garden
Parterres and Bosquets
The age of the Baroque in Europe
Azulejo Gardens in Portugal
The Dutch garden: water and colour triumphant
Seventeenth-Century Holland: Flowers Worth Their Weight in Gold
The Representation of the Garden: the Boundless Garden and the Bird's-Eye View
The eighteenth century: The return to Arcadia
Splendour and originality in the German garden
Felix Austria
The development of the classical garden in Europe
Eastern Europe: Masterpieces Reclaimed
The Arcadian landscape
The Jardin Anglais in Europe
The Representation of the Garden: Man and Garden as Protagonists in Eighteenth-Century Engravings
The nineteenth century: From the picturesque to the eclectic
The development of the English garden
The Return of the Enthusiasm for Topiary
The English garden in Europe
The Fashion for English-Style Gardens in Russia
The fin de siecle garden
The Great Hothouses
The Representation of the Garden: the Garden as Depicted in Oils and Watercolours
The twentieth century: The bourgeois garden
The modern garden in Europe
The Revival of the Classical Garden
The contemporary garden in Europe
Design and Naturalism in Gardens of the Scandinavian School
From revival to modernism. The Americas
The Hispano-Arab Influence in the Mexican Gardens of Luis Barragan
The Representation of the Garden: the Garden in photography
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9780847822188
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