Inventing the garden / Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni ; with Paola Gallo ; translated by David Stanton.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2010.Edition: 1st English edDescription: 275 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN:- 9781606060476 (hardcover)
- 1606060473 (hardcover)
- Invenzione del giardino occidentale. English.
- SB451 .V46513 2010
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Translation of: L'invenzione del giardino occidentale.
First published: Milan : Editoriale Jaca Book S.p.A., 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.