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Book Synopsis Orto De' Pitti by : Domenico Filardi
Download or read book Orto De' Pitti written by Domenico Filardi and published by Centro Di Edizioni. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features the Boboli Garden, or 'Orto de' Pitti' as it was known in the earlier times, focusing in particular on the Botanical Garden, one of the lesser known and more fascinating parts of Palazzo Pitti's magnificent 'Royal Park' and one that the author approaches by different and original points of view: historical, botanical, architectural. Boboli's Botanical Garden, which is currently closed to the public, held an impressive quantity of rare plants, most of which have now disappeared; these attracted a variety of people ranging from botanists to pharmacists to natural historians and painters who produced a fascinating amount of texts, plants paintings, prints and studies. Thanks to Domenico Filardi's thorough research, and to the large amount of previously unpublished archival material which the author has dug up, we can now have a greater insight into the secrets of this garden and discover facts, aspects and stories of different kinds, some of which are here approached for the first time, making this publication an essential chapter in the garden history of Italy. Lavishly illustrated with images ranging from ancient prints to paintings to modern photographs, the book fills a gap in the notwithstanding large bibliography devoted to Florence and its treasures. Architect Domenico Filardi was born in Basilicata, in Southern Italy, and studied in Florence and Rome. He has been involved in projects in Italy, Africa, Latin America and Switzerland, and has written for specialist publications. This is his first book. SELLING POINTS: A fantastic book for those interested in the history of plants and rare specimens 60 colour & 40 b/w illustrations
Book Synopsis The World of Carolus Clusius by : Florike Egmond
Download or read book The World of Carolus Clusius written by Florike Egmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egmond's study investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientific evaluation, as well as tracking the exchange of knowledge. Central to this activity is the figure of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), the first truly scientific botanist.
Book Synopsis Medici Gardens by : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Download or read book Medici Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Download or read book Pitti Palace written by Marco Chiarini and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cultivating the Renaissance by : Katie Campbell
Download or read book Cultivating the Renaissance written by Katie Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the Medici family dominated European life. While promoting both arts and sciences, the Medici helped create a new style of architecture, present a new idea of villa life and promote the novel idea of living in harmony with nature. Used variously for pleasure and sports, scholarly and amorous liaisons, commercial enterprise and botanical experimentation, their villas both expressed and influenced contemporary ideas on politics, philosophy, art and design. Each patron's public interests and private passions, as well as the architects, artists and philosophers they employed, are examined. Through a chronological approach, this book reveals how the villas were used, their reception by contemporary commentators, their legacy and their current state five centuries after they were first built. Lavishly illustrated, Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture, horticulture, landscape history, philosophy, art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy.
Book Synopsis Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence by : Angelica Groom
Download or read book Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence written by Angelica Groom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family’s reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici’s activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe.
Book Synopsis Boboli Gardens by : Francesco Gurrieri
Download or read book Boboli Gardens written by Francesco Gurrieri and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boboli Gardens by : Litta Maria Medri
Download or read book Boboli Gardens written by Litta Maria Medri and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landscape Interpretations by : Paul C. Siciliano
Download or read book Landscape Interpretations written by Paul C. Siciliano and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and accompanying CD-ROM introduce some of the most awe inspiring accomplishments in the development of landscape architecture.
Download or read book Culture Trails written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemingway's Paris, Finnish saunas, Renaissance Florence: from art and music to literature and cinema, there's something for everyone in this follow-up to Wine Trails and Food Trails. We present ideas and itineraries for 52 weekends of culture heaven, packed with expert recommendations, maps and advice on how to get there and where to stay. We've searched the globe to find 52 cultural enclaves where the arts have had a profound, lasting impact and local culture is being protected and nurtured; where old customs hold true and new ones are being forged; and where the past is melding with the future in fascinating ways. Highlights include: Aboriginal art in Australia's Northern Territory On a classical high in Vienna Confronting Soviet ghosts in Bulgaria Exploring a Latin American literary legacy Myths & legends of old Hong Kong Discovering Havana's music scene Copenhagen's design and urban environment Oxford's storytellers Ancient religion of Ethiopia Finnish sauna culture Picasso on the Riviera Walking in the footsteps of Vikings Rajasthan's open-air art galleries Medici Florence Bob Marley reggae trail Taiwanese folklore reimagined Vintage Hollywood Deep South blues trail About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Florence written by Touring club italiano and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, the Touring Club of Italy has been publishing the country's most authoritative guidebooks and maps. The Heritage Series is the expert's guide to travel and sightseeing in Italy. Each volume includes museums, town histories, churches, landmarks, and archaeological sites. There are dozens of maps that give an overview of each city, plus detailed neighborhood plans. Listings of accommodations and restaurants are complete with addresses, price ranges, hours, and phone and fax numbers.
Download or read book Florence written by and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Michelangelo, Donatello, Giotto and Boticelli -- not to mention Macchiavelli and the Medicis -- is one great revelation of the Renaissance. Florence has more eternal art per square mile than anywhere else on earth. You'll want to take time out -- strolling the Boboli Gardens, shopping on the Ponte Vecchio, sipping a cappuccino in the Piazza della Signoria, digging into a steak alla fiorentina.
Book Synopsis The Accessible Guide to Florence by : Cornelia Danielson
Download or read book The Accessible Guide to Florence written by Cornelia Danielson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the worlds great cities, Florence is visited by over six million tourists each year, yet, despite some recent improvements in accessibility, the Cradle of the Renaissance still presents significant barriers. Imagine lunch in an outdoor caf, soaking up the warm September sun, where do you find an accessible restroom? Where to eat in a country whose main staples are bread, pizza, and pasta if you have an intolerance to wheat gluten? In which museums can you touch a Renaissance sculpture if you are visually impaired? Need to rent a wheelchair or find which museums have them on loan? Locate an accessible hotel with a roll-in shower? Find out if your power wheelchair will fit in the elevator of the Uffizi? Or discover the wheelchair-accessible paths in the Boboli Gardens? Reading A Guide to Accessible Florence, an indispensable resource written especially, but not only, for wheelchair or scooter users and slow walkers, will give you the answers to all these questions and to many more.
Book Synopsis Sandra Gustafson's Great Eats Italy by : Sandra Gustafson
Download or read book Sandra Gustafson's Great Eats Italy written by Sandra Gustafson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Gustafson's beloved travel guides (more than 350,000 copies sold in the series) are poised to find their widest popular audience with the exciting re-launch of these best-selling series titles. Joining Great Eats and Great Sleeps Paris, Sandra's guides to London and Italy have been completely revised and updated, retooled and retitled, with new maps, streamlined layout, expanded listings, and more detailed neighborhood coverage. While Sandra's eagle eye for finding the best value for the money remains the series hallmark, its renewed emphasis on the full range of travel pleasures--from the inexpensive romantic hideaway to the splurge dinner worth every penny--is sure to please longtime fans and attract a legion more. Packed with personal recommendations, each revisited or newly discovered by Sandra, the Great Eats/Sleeps series is the perfect companion for anyone in search of the out-of-the-way, unusual, fun, and true flavor of Europe.
Book Synopsis The Medici Gardens of Fifteenth-century Florence by : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Download or read book The Medici Gardens of Fifteenth-century Florence written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence by : Louise Fili
Download or read book The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence written by Louise Fili and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shop and eat like a Florentine with this newly updated pocket-sized guide to the best of the magnificent Tuscan city known for its art, culture, and cuisine. Celebrated graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili, with connoisseur of all things Lise Apatoff, takes you on eight walks through Florence, discussing more than seventy of the city's most alluring shops—some run by the same families for generations, others offering young entrepreneurs' fresh interpretations of traditional techniques. Discerning travelers will discover rare books and charming hats, vintage Pucci and handmade shoes, cioccolate da bere (drinkable chocolate), colorful buttons, and bolts of rich silk fabric in this enchanting introduction to makers and purveyors of cloths, home decor, accessories, specialty foods, and much more. For each shop, there is a full-color photo, description of specialties, and information on location and hours of operation.
Book Synopsis Studies in Italian Sculpture by : Charles Avery
Download or read book Studies in Italian Sculpture written by Charles Avery and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style. Both stone and bronze sculptures are studied, including garden sculpture and other metal artefacts, for example seals and locks.
