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Download or read book Gardens in Art written by Lucia Impelluso and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impelluso analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often-hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings and the nearly 400 works presented here provide a continuous visual record of the myriad forms of gardens.
Book Synopsis Flowers and Flower-gardens by : David Lester Richardson
Download or read book Flowers and Flower-gardens written by David Lester Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World by : Linda Farrar
Download or read book Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World written by Linda Farrar and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each period were designed and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and horticulture is gathered from surviving examples of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual period gardens that have survived the centuries and the wealth of garden myths associated with certain plants. These sources bring ancient gardens and their gardeners back to life, and provide information on which plants were chosen as garden worthy, their setting and the design and appearance of ancient gardens. Deities associated with aspects of gardens and the garden's fertility are featured - everyone wanted a fertile garden. Different forms of public and domestic gardens are explored, and the features that you would find there; whether paths, pools, arbors and arches, seating or decorative sculpture. The ideal garden could be like the Greek groves of the Academy in Athens, a garden so fine that it was comparable with that of the mythical king Alcinoos, the paradise contemplated by the Islamic world, or a personal version of a garden of Eden that Early Christians could create for themselves or in the forecourt of their churches. In general books on garden history cover all periods up to the present, often placing all ancient gardens in one chapter at the beginning. But there is so much of interest to be found in these early millennia. Generously illustrated with 150 images, with plant lists for each period, this is essential reading for everyone interested in garden history and ancient societies.
Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flowers and Flower-Gardens ... With an appendix of practical instructions ... respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by : David Lester RICHARDSON
Download or read book Flowers and Flower-Gardens ... With an appendix of practical instructions ... respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden written by David Lester RICHARDSON and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Roman Gardens by : Elisabeth B. MacDougall
Download or read book Ancient Roman Gardens written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virgil's Garden by : Frederick Jones
Download or read book Virgil's Garden written by Frederick Jones and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen sheltered social and cultural activities, temporary respite from the turbulence of public life, and a tamed landscape in which to play out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality. This book examines the Eclogues in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the Eclogues and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Roman gardens.
Book Synopsis Gardens of the Roman Empire by : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Download or read book Gardens of the Roman Empire written by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
Book Synopsis Milton's Earthly Paradise by : Joseph Ellis Duncan
Download or read book Milton's Earthly Paradise written by Joseph Ellis Duncan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Classical Dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors ... Together with an account of coins, weights and measures, etc by : Charles ANTHON (LL.D.)
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors ... Together with an account of coins, weights and measures, etc written by Charles ANTHON (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Classical Dictionary by : Charles Anthon
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary written by Charles Anthon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlantis written by Ignatius Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myth written by G. S. Kirk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. How far the present book will satisfactorily fill such a need remains to be seen. At least it makes a beginning, even if in doing so it risks the criticism of being neither fish nor fowl. Sociologists and folklorists may find it, from their specialized viewpoints, a little simplistic in places; and a few classical colleagues will not forgive me for straying far beyond Greek myths, even though these can hardly be understood in isolation or solely in the light of studies in cult and ritual. Others may find it less easy than anthropologists, sociologists, historians of thought or students of French and English literature to accept the relevance of Levi-Strauss to some of these matters; but his theory contains the one important new idea in this field since Freud, it is complicated and largely untested, and it demands careful attention from anyone attempting a broad understanding of the subject. The beliefs of Freud and Jung, on the other hand, are a more familiar element in the situation and have given rise to an enormous secondary literature, much of it arbitrary and some of it absurd. The author has tried to isolate the crucial ideas and subject them to a pointed, if too brief, critique; so too with those of Ernst Cassirer.
Book Synopsis The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception by : Marco Fantuzzi
Download or read book The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception written by Marco Fantuzzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.
Book Synopsis Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Plays of William Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love's labour's lost. Much ado about nothing. Merchant of Venice by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Love's labour's lost. Much ado about nothing. Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: