The early modern villa
Subtitle: senses and perceptions versus materiality
By: edited by Barbara Arciszewska
Contributors: Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie
Publisher: Wilanów Palace Museum
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wilanów [Warsaw, Poland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9788363580841
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Congresses; Country homes; Baroque Architecture; Wille wczesnonowożytne Europa; Architecture and Urbanism
Notes: "Baroque villa."

Based on papers from a conference held October 15-17, 2014, at the Wilanów Palace Orangery, Warszawa, Poland.

"The focus of the conference will be to show The role of the senses and sensual perception in the planning, design, as well as functioning and reception of the villa (c. 1450-1800) - set against the essential materiality of architecture and nature."--European Architectural History Network website.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Villa, Villeggiatura and the Sensory Turn:- Research Challenges and Opportunities / Barbara Arciszewska; title: Medici Villas as an Expression of New Way of Life and Perception / Sabine Frommel; title: Venaria Reale: Fountains of the Five Senses in the "Roman" Villa of Dukes of Savoy (1659) / Paolo Cornaglia; title: Between the Inside Outside- Between Retreat and Delight. The Transition Spaces of the Portuguese Early Modern Villa / João Vieira Caldas and Ana Rita Gonçalves; title: Architecture of the Five Senses: Manor House in the Douro in the Eighteenth Century / Ana Celeste Glória; title: The Admiral, his Villa and the Smell of Gunpowder, Sea and Glory / Konrad Ottenheym and Tatjana Van Run; title: Il delizioso ritiro of Johann Adam von Questenberg / Martina Frank; title: Eisenstadt Palaca under Prince Paul Esterházy I: Creating a Feast for the Senses / Margit Kopp; title: Playing with Objects: Engaging the Senses in the Villa Collections of Rome / Lisa Beaven; title: Running from Water: Giochi d'acqua and Sense of Touch / David R. Marshall; title: The Role of the Senses in the Early Modern Italien Garden / Karin Esmann Knudsen; title: The Villa Kratochvíle in Bohemia: Imagery, Senses and Meaning in Vilém of Rožmberk's Aristocratic Hunting Lodge / Ondřej Jakubec; title: Trifles of Perspective and Rhetoric of Illusion. The Sensual Response to Pictures in the English Country House and its Discontents / Jacek Jaźwierski; title: Delighting the Five Senses in "Pegasus's Plain". Suburban Gardens to the North-East of Brussels in the Early Modern Period / Krista de Jonge; title: Politics, Pleasure and Sensuality in the Seventeenth-Century Villa in Poland-Lithuania / Franciszek Skibiński; title: Villegiatura alla Polacca- A Historian's Perspective /Wojciech Tygielski; title: Sensations, Sensuality and Voluptuousness: Materialism and Petites Maisons in Enlightenment France / Marine Ganofsky; title: Serfdom and Spectacle at Kuskovo and Ostankino / Alexandra Helprin; title: The Villa in Colonial India: Major General Claude Martin's Villa Estates in Eighteenth-Century Avadhian Lucknow / Jyoti Pandey Sharma.