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Author : Janet Ross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Revisiting the Gamberaia written by Janet Ross and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boştenaru Dan, Maria
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3731507366
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Water as hazard and water as heritage: Report of the European Geosciences Union Topical Event in Rome, 13.-14. June 2016 written by Boştenaru Dan, Maria and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466803517
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Venus Fixers written by Ilaria Dagnini Brey and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure that the great masterworks of European art and architecture were not looted or bombed into oblivion. The journalist Ilaria Dagnini Brey focuses her spellbinding account on the monuments officers of Italy, quickly dubbed "the Venus Fixers" by bemused troops. Working on the front lines in conditions of great deprivation and danger, these unlikely soldiers stripped the great galleries of their incomparable holdings and sent them into safety by any means they could. They worked with skeptical army strategists to make sure air raids didn't take out the heart of an ancient city, and patched up Renaissance palazzi and ancient churches whose lead roofs were sometimes melted away by the savagery of the attacks. Sometimes they failed. But to an astonishing degree, they succeeded, and anyone who marvels at Italy's artistic riches today is witnessing their handiwork. In the course of her research, Brey gained unprecedented access to private archives and primary sources, and the result is a book at once thorough and grandly entertaining—a revelatory take on a little-known chapter of World War II history. The Venus Fixers is an adventure story with the gorgeous tints of a Botticelli landscape as its backdrop.
Author : Grazia Gobbi Sica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134067178
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Florentine Villa written by Grazia Gobbi Sica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author: analyzes the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation looks at the villas existing in the area. A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
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Publisher : Polistampa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gardens of Tuscany written by and published by Polistampa. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beautiful Tuscan gardens seen through the work of the photographer, Massimo Listri, with descriptive and historical texts from a team of experts. Forty-two gardens are examined: eighteen of which are in Florence: Boboli, Torrigiani Garden, Villa i Tatti, Villa Gamberaia, Fonte Lucente, Villa Demidoff Park, Villa La Pietra and others. The whole history of the gardens of Tuscany is retraced by Mariella Zoppi in the introduction. Texts by: Gilberto Bedini, Chiara Bichi, Andrea Boscu Bianchi Bandinelli, Enrica Buccioni, Marco Cei, Cesare Cunaccia, Giorgio Galletti, Massimo Gregorini, Biagio Guccione, Alberto Giuntoli, Isabella Lapi Ballerini, Paola Maresca, Litta Medri, Rosetta Ragghianti, Ines Romitti, Vieri Torrigiani, Luigi Zangheri, Mariella Zoppi.
Author : John Chiene Shepherd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858946948
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (469 download)
Download or read book The Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei written by Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating serenely beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. Giubbilei is known for the understated elegance of his designs, but is constantly evolving his style and approach, both in response to individual clients and as his ideas develop. His work draws on his Italian heritage, especially the Renaissance gardens of the Villa Gamberaia in Tuscany, and a distinctively classical combination of restraint and opulent materials. This book - now published in paperback for the first time - explores 12 significant gardens from Giubbilei's portfolio, including the garden that won him a gold medal at the world-famous Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show in 2009. The locations vary from private residences in London and Barcelona to corporate headquarters in Geneva and a holiday home in Morocco. Each project is fully documented, from the preparation of mood boards and initial sketches to final planting and finishing. As Tom Stuart-Smith notes in his foreword, Giubbilei's gardens are characterized by their 'quiet aura of calm and poise' and their 'restful confidence' 'The gardens are like the man, impeccably turned out, suave and urbane in a gentle way, quietly assertive but never bossy. Sophisticated and thoroughly Italian. ... [His style] provides a form of instant theatre, where the designer forges places, conjures atmosphere and creates spaces out of nothing. This is great art.' Separate sections on the design process, site development, nursery production and the sourcing of plants, as well as on the artists and craftsmen with whom Giubbilei collaborates, offer a fascinating insight into his working methods and sources of inspiration. Accessibly written by a leading garden professional and fully illustrated with planting plans, behind-the-scenes images and atmospheric photographs by Steven Wooster, this beautiful book is the definitive work on the gardens of an acclaimed designer.
Author : Ernest Samuels
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674067790
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Legend written by Ernest Samuels and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy swirls around Bernard Berenson today as it did in his middle years, before and between two world wars. Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? How did he support his elegant estate near Florence, his Villa I Tatti? What exactly were his relations with the art dealer Joseph Duveen? What part did his wife, Mary, play in his scholarly work and professional career? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it--as reported at first hand in his and Mary's letters and diaries and reflected in the countless personal and business letters they received. His is one of the most fully documented lives of this century. Ernest Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail. Berenson helped Isabella Stewart Gardner build her great collection and performed similar though lesser services for other wealthy Americans. It was merely an avocation and a useful source of income; his vocation was scholarship. But after 1904, when the book opens, his expertise was in ever-greater demand: a purchaser's only assurance of the authorship of an Italian painting was the opinion of an expert, and in this field Berenson was pre-eminent. Increasingly he was drawn into the lucrative world of the art dealers; inevitably Joseph Duveen found it essential to enlist his services, at first ad hoc, then by contractual agreement. Samuels charts the course of Berenson's long association with Duveen Brothers, detailing the financial arrangements, the humdrum chores and major contested attributions, the periodic clashes between the stubborn scholar and the arrogant entrepreneur. The portrayal of Berenson's relationship with Mary is especially intriguing: a union of opposites in all but brains and wit, bonded--despite love affairs, jealousies, recriminations--no longer by passion but by shared concerns. Impinging on their lives are those of a huge circle of friends and acquaintances in America and the beau monde of Europe. Both as biography and as a chapter of social and cultural history, it is a compelling book.
Author : Page Dickey
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142999407X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Embroidered Ground written by Page Dickey and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorable book about making a renowned garden work In Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden, the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nineyear-long process of creating her own remarkable garden, Duck Hill, in upstate New York. This winning book details the evolution of one especially loved and cared-for space: its failed schemes and realized dreams, and the wisdom gained in contending with an ever evolving work of art. The author shares her very personal views on what contributes to a garden's success—structure, fragrance, the play of light and shadow, patterns and textures, multiseasonal plants. She writes of gardening with a husband, with wildlife, with dogs and chickens. And she grapples with how to adapt her garden—as we can adapt ours—to change in the years ahead.
Author : Pauline Maud Matarasso
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Voyage Closed and Done written by Pauline Maud Matarasso and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Page
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590172315
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The Education Of A Gardener written by Russell Page and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical know-how. They are not only essential reading for today’s gardeners, but a master’s compelling reflection on the deep sources and informing principles of his art. The Education of a Gardener offers charming, sometimes pointed anecdotes about patrons, colleagues, and, of course, gardens, together with lucid advice for the gardener. Page discusses how to plan a garden that draws on the energies of the surrounding landscape, determine which plants will do best in which setting, plant for the seasons, handle color, and combine trees, shrubs, and water features to rich and enduring effect. To read The Education of a Gardener is to wander happily through a variety of gardens in the company of a wise, witty, and knowledgeable friend. It will provide pleasure and insight not only to the dedicated gardener, but to anyone with an interest in abiding questions of design and aesthetics, or who simply enjoys an unusually well-written and thoughtful book.
Author : Georgina Masson
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN 13 : 9781870673570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Italian Gardens written by Georgina Masson and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised edition of a classic work on Italian Gardens.
Author : D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher : didapress
ISBN 13 : 8833380114
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Hidden Histories written by D. Medina Lasansky and published by didapress. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.
Author : Francesco Colonna
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464987871
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili written by Francesco Colonna and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", together with all of its 174 original woodcut illustrations, has been called the first "stream of consciousness" novel and was one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. The author -- presumed to be a friar of dubious reputation -- was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume (it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed) and its woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas.
Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022936
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Thoughtful Gardening written by Robin Lane Fox and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thoughtful Gardening, award-winning historian and Financial Times gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox takes readers on a delightful journey through each season of the gardening year. From fending off vine-weevils to visiting Yves Saint Laurent's private gardens in Marrakech, Fox imbues each of his musings with grace, sophistication, and charm. Essential reading for anyone planting a new garden or taking stock of one after several years, Thoughtful Gardening offers expert advice and a touching reminder of the power of art and literature to deepen what we see and experience in nature. Combining a vast understanding of horticulture with witty and stylish storytelling, these vignettes form -- season by season -- a rich reflection on the lessons, challenges, and joys of life with a green thumb.
Author : Catie Marron
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062231804
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book City Parks written by Catie Marron and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time’s fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama’s 2008 victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Oberto Gili’s color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers’ unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time’s passage.
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Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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