VILLAS AND GARDENS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY AND FRANCE by MIRKA BENES, Mirka Beneš, Dianne Suzette Harris, Mirka Beneš, Dianne Harris ISBN 9780521782258, 0521782252 instant download

VILLAS AND GARDENS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY AND FRANCE by MIRKA BENES, Mirka Beneš, Dianne Suzette Harris, Mirka Beneš, Dianne Harris ISBN 9780521782258, 0521782252 instant download

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. The grand gardens in Italy that were created over roughly three centuries, the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth, for dukes, popes, and cardinals as well as for patricians with wealth and status, are generally considered in the garden literature to constitute a distinct and unified Italian garden tradition.