A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350009911 ISBN 13: 9781350009912

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of André Le Nôtre in 1700 in France, is a story both of dynamism and codification. The period saw the emergence of what would become archetypal elements of the formal garden and the fixing of theory and language of the garden arts.

At the same time, newly important sciences, developments in engineering, as well as globalization, historicity, and theories of aesthetics were embraced in the construction of such gardens. The result was the notion of the landscape as something to be labored on, created, and delighted in, that ultimately would become a stage upon which Renaissance cultural politics played out.

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

About this title

Book Description:

The definitive overview on gardens through history, A Cultural History of Gardens covers 2,500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Hyde is Assistant Professor of History at Kean University, and is the author of Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1350009911
• ISBN 13: 9781350009912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hyde Elizabeth