Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)
Contributors: Mirka Benes (Editor); Dianne Harris (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521782258
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Landscape art & architecture; General; France; Architecture; Europe; Italy; History; Garden Design; Landscape; Architecture / General; Gardens--Italy--History; Architecture, Domestic; Gardens
First sentence: The grand gardens in Italy that were created over roughly three centuries, the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth, for dukes, popes, and cardinals as well as for patricians with wealth and status, are generally considered in the garden literature to constitute a distinct and unified Italian garden tradition.