Petrarch’s Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement
ISBN: 9781599102733
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Gardens -- Styles; Gardens Medieval; Gardens Renaissance; Landscape gardening;

The four essays of this book discuss gardens of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose traces are still visible at sites in Italy and France: Palermo and Rome, the Vaucluse and Hesdin. These gardens have been emptied of the life that gave them shape and in the intervening years they have been transformed in such a way as to entangle and obscure significant moments of their past. Examines these places as installations within a more enduring environment in much the same way that temporary "ambient architecture" -- the architecture of the stage set, the showroom and the festival -- stands within the framework of building and city. Acknowledgments, prologue, notes, bibliography and index. 78 color and black and white illustrations.


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