Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Lazzaro provides a scholarly treatment of Italian Renaissance gardens in the context of 16th-century attitudes about nature, art, and culture. She thoroughly examines original designs and documents and provides excellent photographs. Thus, one can begin to compare the gardens as they now exist with the gardens as they were originally planned and executed. Four well-preserved, grand gardens are treated in depth; the plant material used, the form of...
Publisher
BBC Knowledge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Monty Don returns to our screens with an enchanting four part series that celebrates Italy{u2019}s world famous gardens. Over four luscious hours, Monty will be conducting his very personal {u2018}grand tour{u2019} exploring sublime, horticultural hideaways of the romantic South to unravelling the riddles behind the austere formality and theatre behind the ostentatious papal gardens of Rome. In Florence Monty will be finding out how in the Renaissance,...
