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Magnificent buildings, splendid gardens

Author: David R Coffin; Vanessa Bezemer Sellers; Princeton University. Dept. of Art and Archaeology.
Publisher: Princeton : Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University : In association with Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David R Coffin; Vanessa Bezemer Sellers; Princeton University. Dept. of Art and Archaeology.
ISBN: 9780691136646 0691136645 9780691136776 0691136777
OCLC Number: 163707511
Description: xix, 300 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Contents: Architecture and Architects. Pirro Ligorio and decoration of the late sixteenth century at Ferrara -- Pirro Ligorio on the nobility of the arts -- Pope Innocent VIII and the Villa Belvedere -- Pope Marcellus II and architecture -- The self-image of the Roman villa during the Renaissance -- Some architectural drawings of Giovan Battista Aleotti -- Padre Guarino Guarini in Paris -- Gardens and landscape designers. John Evelyn at Tivoli -- Some aspects of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia -- The "Lex Hortorum" and access to gardens of Latium during the Renaissance -- The study of the history of the Italian garden until the first Dumbarton Oaks colloquium -- The gardens of Venice -- Repton's "Red Book" for Beaudesert -- The Elysian Fields of Rousham -- Venus in the eighteenth-century English garden -- Venus in the garden of Wilton House -- Drawings. Tintoretto and the Medici tombs -- A drawing by Pietro da Cortona for his fresco of the Age of iron -- Scholars. Earl Baldwin Smith -- In memoriam: Erwin Panofsky.
Responsibility: David R. Coffin ; edited by Vanessa Bezemer Sellers.
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