Title: Inventing the garden /
Authors: Vercelloni, Matteo, 1961-; Vercelloni, Virgilio.; Gallo, Paola.; J. Paul Getty Museum.
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Gardens History; Gardens Design History; Gardens Europe History
Abstract: The authors trace the evolution of the Western garden from the first plots cultivated for pleasure in the Middle East to today's diverse green spaces that challenge traditional ideas about what constitutes a garden. They examine the changing attitude toward nature--as something to be dominated or embraced, ordered or allowed to range freely, exploited or conserved. --from publisher description.
Contents: The invention of the garden -- Hortus conclusus -- The humanistic dream and the Italian Renaissance garden -- Material culture, scientific curiosities, and exoticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The persistence of the Italian model and Baroque restlessness -- The French formal garden -- An aesthetic revelation : the landscape garden -- Structures for the romantic garden -- Aesthetics, history, and botany in the nineteenth-century garden -- From the rediscovery of flowers to the wild garden -- A garden for everyone -- The American garden -- The twentieth century -- Into the new century.