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Edith
Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden
design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of
America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and
character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book
explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls
their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate
relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the
surrounding countryside.
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Hadrian's
Villa and Its Legacy by William L. MacDonald, Henry McBride Paperback, 404 pages Published by Yale Univ Pr Publication date: Nov 1997  The
great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D.
118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of
architecture and art. In this beautiful book, two distinguished
architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed
in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and
artists up to the present day.
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Villa
Lante, Bagnaia by Fritz Barth Hardcover, 512 pages Published by Edition Axel Menges Gmbh Publication date: Dec 2001 |
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Italian Gardens: A Guide by Alex Ramsey, Helena Atlee Paperback, 400 pages Published by Ellipsis London Pr Ltd Publication date: Apr 2000
For more than 500 years the gardens of Italy have attracted visitors
from all over the world. Many of the greatest artists and architects
of the Renaissance were employed in their design and ornamentation. Italian
Gardens is a practical and beautifully illustrated guide to more
than 60 of the finest examples, from the seventeenth-century gardens
of Castello d'Aglie in Piedmont to the thirteenth-century Moorish
garden of the Villa Rufolo in Campania. As well as well-known gardens
(for example, the Boboli gardens, Florence, Villa d'Este outside
Rome),
the book takes visitors away from the well-trodden tourist
paths to a private world of beauty and, often, eccentricity. Both
practical and up to date, the guide provides histories and
descriptions, as well as detailed information on locations,
facilities, opening times, and accessibility.
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The
Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture by John Dixon Hunt (Editor) Hardcover Published by Cambridge Univ Pr Publication date: Nov 1996
Italian gardens
vary widely according to their historical date and geographic
location. This collection approaches Italian gardens of all periods,
from the middle ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout
the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and
Ferrara to Florence. The authors are a distinguished group of Italian,
American, English and German scholars.th different backgrounds in
art history, literature, architecture, planning, and cultural history.
From the Publisher
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Italian
Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish (Illustrator) Paperback Published by Da Capo Pr Publication date: May 1977 |
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by Judith Wade Publisher: Rizzoli; (September 2002)
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LA
Mortella:
An
Italian
Garden
Paradise Susana Walton;Hardcover; Buy New: $31.50 Publisher: New Holland Publishers; (January 2003)
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Ancient Roman Gardens by Linda Farrar Hardcover, 224 pages Published by Sutton Publishing Publication date: Nov 1998
This book offers a fascinating new dimension to the history of Roman
society and of gardening and horticulture. The author, a classicist
and archaeology with a special interest in gardening and garden
history, traces the development of Roman gardens from their humble
origins as vegetable patches to the sophisticated landscapes of the
rich and famous at the height of the Empire. This fully illustrated
study features evidence from gardens in Italy and from archaeological
sites throughout the countryside with information on literature,
frescoes, mosaics, sculptures and architecture to provide a vivid
picture of the rich variety of Roman gardens, their common plants and
exotic trees and flowers, their splendid arbors, and fanciful
sculptures and mosaics. The habits of Roman gardeners, their tools and
horticultural techniques and landscape designs complete this classical
gardening tour of ancient Rome.
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Villas
and Gardens of Tuscany by Sophie Bajard, Raffaello Bencini Paperback, 244 pages Published by Terrail Publication date: Jan 1996 |
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Edith
Wharton's Italian Gardens by Vivian Russell Hardcover, 192 pages Published by Bulfinch Pr Publication date: Mar 1998
Famous American author Edith Wharton adored Italy--adored Italian
gardens, in particular. In 1904 she published a series of commentaries
on that subject, Italian Villas and Their Gardens. Contemporary
garden authority and photographer Russell recently followed the trail
blazed by Wharton around the Italian peninsula, relooking at the
gardens the previous writer had favored in her collection of articles,
which has come to be regarded as a groundbreaking reckoning of Italian
landscape art and... From
Booklist , March 15, 1998
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Garden
Lover's Guide to Italy by Penelope Hobhouse Paperback, 144 pages Published by Princeton Architectural Pr Publication date: May 1998
"Imagine having Penelope Hobhouse, the eminent British writer and
gardener, escort you on you next trip to Italy, discussing the
parterre planting at Villa Cicogna Mozzoni at Lake Como and the 'wing
of yew' at Villa La Pietra in Florence. If you pack the Garden Lover's
Guide to Italy, you'll have her expert view on more than a hundred
Italian gardens. Conde
Nast House & Garden
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Visions of Arcadia: European
Gardens from Renaissance to Rococo by May Woods, Rosemary Verey Hardcover, 224 pages Published by Aurum Pr Ltd Publication date: Nov 1996
Serious gardening enthusiasts should delight in this accessible study
of evolving garden design in Europe. From splendid examples of Italian
Renaissance sites to baroque elements, such as mounts, which have all
but vanished in the years since they first appeared, to the
chinoiserie style associated with rococo, Woods delves into
fascinating aspects of each era. Finely produced books such as this
afford the opportunity to reproduce period paintings, archival
drawings, and engravings of ancient garden plans, thus achieving rare
glimpses of notable gardens that no longer exist... Alice JoyceCopyright© 1996, American Library Association. All rights reserved |
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Italian
Gardens of the Renaissance by J. C. Shepherd, G. A. Jellicoe (Contributor) Hardcover, 200 pages Published by Princeton Architectural Pr Publication date: Jul 1993 The
fifth edition of this classic reproduces the text and plates of the
first edition (1925, Ernest Benn) without change except for
repagination, a slightly smaller format, a brief introduction, and
Jellicoe's foreword to the 1986 reprint edition. It remains a
testament to the authors' devotion to formal beauty and design,
valuable for its india-ink and wash depictions of the most important
Italian villas. From
Book News, Inc. , December 1, 1993
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Roman
Gardens: Villas of the Countryside by Marcello Fagiolo, Roberto Schezen (Photographer) Hardcover, 272 pages Published by Monacelli Pr Publication date: Oct 1997 |
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Roman
Gardens: Villas of the City by Marcello Fagiolo, Roberto Schezen (Photographer) Hardcover, 213 pages Published by Monacelli Pr Publication date: Feb 2000 |
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Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (Penn Studies in Landscape
Architecture) by Benedetta Origo (Editor), Laurie Olin, John Dixon Hunt, Morna Livingston Hardcover, 312 pages Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Publication date: Oct 2001 |
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Fountains,
Statues, and Flowers: Studies in Italian Gardens of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Elisabeth blair MacDougall Hardcover Published by Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service Publication date: Nov 1994 |
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The Villa D'Este at Tivoli by David Dernie, Alaistar Carew-Cox (Photographer) Hardcover Published by John Wiley & Son Ltd Publication date: Oct 1996 |
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Italian
Parks and Gardens by Massimo Listri (Photographer), Cesare M. Cunaccia Hardcover, 239 pages Published by Rizzoli Bookstore Publication date: May 1996
Listri's alluring photographs complement Cunaccia's historically
detailed, aesthetically illuminating, substantial text in an ode to
Italy's grand gardens and splendid parks. Spanning the far northern
regions to Brindisi in the "heel of the boot," this visually
sumptuous tour will whet the appetite of travelers yearning for the
real thing. Pictured are the most poetic villas, the grandest
statuary, and architectural fragments recalling ancient cultures.... Alice
Joyce Copyright© 1996, American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Garden and Grove: The Italian
Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 by John Dixon Hunt Paperback, 268 pages Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Publication date: Sep 1996
Garden and Grove is a
pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance
gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in
their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian
gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming,
with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its
variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at
what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon
their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their
estates, on their stages, and in their poems.
From the Publisher
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Artifici d'Acque e
Giardini: la Cultura delle Grotte e dei Ninfei in Italia e in Europa by Isabella Lapi Ballerini, Litta Maria Medri Hardcover, 422 pages Published by Art Books Intl Ltd. Publication date: Jan 2000
An International Convention dedicated to Italian and
European historical gardens with specific emphasis on the architecture
of grottos and nymphaeums was held in Florence and Lucca ( Palazzo
Pitti – Villa Buonvisi Bottini, September 1998), the proceedings of
which are now published in the present volume. Organized by the
Italian Soprintendenze, the Convention also involved important
European institutions such as the Senat de France, the British
National Trust and the Directors of the Peterhof Park near St.
Petersburg. The many and foremost specialists in the field from all
over Europe who attended, contributed with essays on different
scientific and historical subjects relating to parks and gardens in
different parts of the world, covering a period from the Renaissance
to the Twentieth Century.
From the Publisher
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Villas and
Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France by Mirka Benes, Dianne Harris Hardcover, 448 pages Published by Cambridge University Press Publication date: Jul 2001
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
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Landscape and
Identity in Early Modern Rome : Villa Culture at Frascati in the
Borghese Era by Tracy L. Ehrlich Hardcover, 480 pages Published by Cambridge University Press Publication date: Oct 2002
Throughout the early modern period, the villas of
Frascati played a central role in Roman social politics. New families
penetrated Roman society and began to climb from the ranks of the
ecclesiastical nobility into the secular aristocracy in the
mid-sixteenth century. In this study, Tracy Ehrlich analyzes one such
villa--the Villa Mondragone--(built by Pope Paul V Borghese) to
demonstrate how architecture, landscape and rituals of villeggiatura
(villa life) were used to forge a new identity as a Roman noble house.
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Italian Gardens: A Guide by Alex Ramsey, Helena Atlee Paperback, 400 pages Published by Ellipsis London Pr Ltd Publication date: Apr 2000 |
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Ancient Roman Villa Gardens by Elisabeth Blair Mac Dougal Hardcover Published by Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service Publication date: Feb 1987 |
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The Gardens of Pompeii:
Herculaneum and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius : Appendices by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, Stanley A. Jashemski (Photographer) Hardcover Published by Melissa Media Publication date: Aug 1993
With the publication of the acclaimed, groundbreaking Volume 1 over a
decade ago, Jashemski essentially created the discipline of garden
archaeology. Volume 2 presents the foundation of Jashemski's work, the
data gathered and the discoveries made in over 35 years of research.
Appendix I lists 625 entries and describes all excavated gardens.
Appendix II describes and records, mostly in color, all known garden
paintings in the Roman world, garden representations, and mosaics.
Appendix III tabulates data on spores, pollen, mammals, birds, and
other life forms. The volume is illustrated with color and b&w
photographs, plans, and drawings...From
Book News, Inc. , May 1, 1994
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Italian Villas and Gardens: A
Corso Di Disegno by Paul Van Der Ree, Gerrit Smienk, Clemens Steenbergen Paperback, 298 pages Published by International Book Import Service, Inc. Publication date: Apr 1992
From Library JournalVan der Ree's geographically grouped corso di designo on over 40 villas from the medieval to the baroque is accomplished through a villa-by-villa analysis. Maps found at the beginning of each geographic section denote the locations of the villas. The design of each villa, its structure, and its relationship to surrounding nature are illustrated by special geometric line drawings and by black-and-white photographs of the actual villa.... Ellen Bates, New York Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc |
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Il giardino
napoletano : dal Quattrocento al Settecento by Anna Giannetti Paperback, 298 pages Published by Electa Napoli Publication date: |
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Gardens of
Naples by Nicolas Sapieha, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Hardcover, 208 pages Published by Sothebys Pubns Publication date: Apr 1995
From Library JournalThis beautiful book surveys the gardens of Naples from Greek and Roman times to the present. Thirty-four gardens (more private than public) are included. The author is a landscape architect, historian, and scholar who chose not to include references or a bibliography, as did Georgina Masson in Italian Gardens (Antique Collectors Club, 1987. o.p.). Thus, this is more of a photographic survey that can supplement the work above... Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., Seattle Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc |
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Il giardino
napoletano : dal Quattrocento al Settecento by Anna Giannetti Paperback, 298 pages Published by Electa Napoli Publication date: |
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Gardens of
Naples by Nicolas Sapieha, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Hardcover, 208 pages Published by Sothebys Pubns Publication date: Apr 1995
From Library JournalThis beautiful book surveys the gardens of Naples from Greek and Roman times to the present. Thirty-four gardens (more private than public) are included. The author is a landscape architect, historian, and scholar who chose not to include references or a bibliography, as did Georgina Masson in Italian Gardens (Antique Collectors Club, 1987. o.p.). Thus, this is more of a photographic survey that can supplement the work above... Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., Seattle Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc |
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A Tour of
Italian Gardens by Judith Cathfield, Liberto Perugi (Photographer) Paperback, 224 pages Published by Rizzoli Publication date: Jun 1988
From Book News, Inc.Some 120 fine color photos of public and private gardens of Lucca, Florence and Sienna. Little text beyond the thorough captions. Lists those gardens open for viewing. 10x7<1;/2>". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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Gardens of
Tuscany by Ethne Clarke, Raffaello Bencini Paperback, 298 pages Published by Rizzoli Publication date: Oct 1990
From Book News, Inc.Some 120 fine color photos of public and private gardens of Lucca, Florence and Sienna. Little text beyond the thorough captions. Lists those gardens open for viewing. 10x7<1;/2>". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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Gardens of
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Italian Pavements: Patterns
in Space by Kim Williams Hardcover, 160 pages Published by Univ of Chicago Pr Publication date: Feb 1998
Precious, brilliantly colored stones arranged by skilled artisans in
intricate patterns that follow the designs of master architects have
been an important aspect of Italian architecture for centuries. In
this book, Kim Williams provides a detailed overview of these
beautifully designed pavements. From the second-century Pantheon in
Rome to the twentieth-century Santa Maria Novella train station in
Florence, Williams traces the evolution of pavement design, points to
characteristic design elements of each age, and explains the various
techniques and materials used.
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