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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance By Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)


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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)

The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of Andre Le Notre in 1700 in France, is a story both of dynamism and codification. The period saw the emergence of what would become archetypal elements of the formal garden and the fixing of theory and language of the garden arts. At the same time, newly important sciences, developments in engineering, as well as globalization, historicity, and theories of aesthetics were embraced in the construction of such gardens. The result was the notion of the landscape as something to be labored on, created, and delighted in, that ultimately would become a stage upon which Renaissance cultural politics played out. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

About Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)

Elizabeth Hyde is Assistant Professor of History at Kean University, and is the author of Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV.

Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance, Edited by Elizabeth Hyde Introduction Design, Luke Morgan, Monash University, Australia Types of Gardens, Rafaella Fabiani Giannetto, University of Pennsylvania, USA Plantings, Margherita Zalum Cardon, Universita di Pisa, Italy Use and Reception, Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University, USA Meaning, Luke Morgan, Monash University, Australia Verbal Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA Visual Representations, Malgorzata Szafranska, The Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Mirka Benes, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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NLS9781350009912
9781350009912
1350009911
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University, USA)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-09-22
320
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