Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:

Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles extracted from garden treatises, and suggests that, in the case of the gardens in Florence, garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

Drawing from Medici tax returns, inventories, and correspondence, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examines the transformation of these gardens from functional and pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. The Medici gardens of the fifteenth century were the result both of everyday living and of a poetic activity that was influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the author compares the making of actual gardens to that of the literary pleasances described by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ficino. Although the fictional gardens appear "designed" in that their place within literary works is carefully thought through, their actual counterparts are the product of a modus operandi, indebted to horticultural knowledge handed down from one generation to another in a slowly evolving tradition.

Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

From reader reviews:

Juan Carrillo:

Do you have favorite book? Should you have, what is your favorite's book? E-book is very important thing for us to find out everything in the world. Each book has different aim or goal; it means that e-book has different type. Some people really feel enjoy to spend their a chance to read a book. They are reading whatever they take because their hobby is usually reading a book. How about the person who don't like studying a book? Sometime, person feel need book if they found difficult problem or perhaps exercise. Well, probably you will want this Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture).

William Troutt:

Information is provisions for individuals to get better life, information currently can get by anyone on everywhere. The information can be a information or any news even an issue. What people must be consider whenever those information which is inside the former life are hard to be find than now could be taking seriously which one is appropriate to believe or which one typically the resource are convinced. If you receive the unstable resource then you have it as your main information you will see huge disadvantage for you. All of those possibilities will not happen inside you if you take Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) as your daily resource information.

Glen Bass:

Does one one of the book lovers? If so, do you ever feeling doubt while you are in the book store? Try to pick one book that you just dont know the inside because don't determine book by its handle may doesn't work is difficult job because you are frightened that the inside maybe not while fantastic as in the outside appearance likes. Maybe you answer might be Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) why because the amazing cover that make you consider concerning the content will not disappoint you. The inside or content is actually fantastic as the outside as well as cover. Your reading sixth sense will directly assist you to pick up this book.

David Swanson:

Reading a reserve make you to get more knowledge from that. You can take knowledge and information coming from a book. Book is composed or printed or highlighted from each source in which filled update of news. Within this modern era like right now, many ways to get information are available for you actually. From media social including newspaper, magazines, science book, encyclopedia, reference book, story and comic. You can add your knowledge by that book. Ready to spend your spare time to spread out your book? Or just looking for the Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) when you essential it?