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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, with 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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Italian
Gardens
Publisher:
Rizzoli;
(September
2002)
From
Booklist
Selecting
37
gardens
from
Lombardy
to
Sicily,
Wade
undertakes
an
engaging
tour
of
Italian
landscapes
that
have
been
in
cultivation
for
centuries
and,
by
way
of
contrast,
includes
contemporary
settings
boasting
the
designs
of
Russell
Page.
The
well-rounded
presentation
conveys
each
garden's
history,...
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more
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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 Joyce
Copyright© 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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LA
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 Journal
Van 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 Journal
This 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 Journal
This 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
Florence
by Alessando Albrizzi (Photographer), Jane Pool, Ileana
Chiappini Di Sorio
Hardcover, 221 pages
Published by Rizzoli
Publication date: May 1992
From Library Journal
This sumptuous volume does justice to Florence's many gardens.
Albrizzi's sharp photographic eye pushes the two-dimensional plane to
its full potential: Page after page is filled with the lush,
labyrinthine greenery and meticulous lawns that create nature's
quietly breathing tapestries...Marigrace
Ma selli, New York Copyright
1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc
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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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