Clio in the Italian garden : twenty-first-century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee, editors.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
[2011], ©2011.
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ;
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| Physical Description: | viii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
Contents:
- The study of Italian gardens: a newly expanding field / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee
- Part I: Historiography of Italian gardens and landscape. Methodological changes in the study of Italian gardens from the 1970s to the 1990s: a personal itinerary / Mirka Beneš ; "Grafting the edelweiss on cactus plants": the 1931 Italian garden exhibition and its legacy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
- Part II: The notion of territorial systems in Italian villa gardens. Systems of gardens in Italy: princely residences and villas in Rome and Latium, Savoy Piedmont, Royal Bourbon Naples, and Bagheria, Sicily / Marcello Fagiolo ; Residences of the emergent classes in two areas of southern Italy / Vincenzo Cazzato
- Part III: Agents of landscape transformation: from microstoria to policies of stewardship. From the Italian countryside to the Italianate landscape: peasants as gardeners and foreign observers in Italy, 1500-1850 / Mauro Ambrosoli ; Gardens and landscapes as "open-ended works" between continuity and transformation: notes on the role of historical studies / Lionella Scazzosi
- Part IV: Ways of seeing the landscape: reconstructing horizons of perception and the imaginary. The imaginary of generative nature in Italian mannerist gardens / Antonella Pietrogrande ; Toward an archaeology of the gaze: the perception and function of garden views in Italian Renaissance villas / Denis Ribouillault.