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Softcover, 168 pages, new condition, still sealed in shrinkwrap, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Illustrated.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research.Mirka Bene and Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examine the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies. Marcello Fagiolo and Vincenzo Cazzato advance a new theory of villa systems that enlarges the geographical frame of the field. Mauro Ambrosoli highlights the contributions of anonymous laborers and gardeners in the creation of the countryside, while Lionella Scazzosi shows how this broader view of agency informs decisions by policymakers regarding the restoration and maintenance of historical gardens. Antonella Pietrogrande and Denis Ribouillault offer new interpretations of some of the most famous Renaissance sites through analyses of cultural imagination and modes of perception.This volume exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of garden design, and offers a reflective meditation on the vitality of one of the oldest branches of garden and landscape history. Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions, both quantitative and methodological, for future research. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 color illustrations, 43 black-and-white illustrations, 48 color photographs, 1 black-a. BIC Classification: 1DST; AMA; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 918. . 2011. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. pp. 288 83 Illus. (40 Col.), 3 Maps.

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Condition: New. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 color illustrations, 43 black-and-white illustrations, 48 color photographs, 1 black-a. BIC Classification: 1DST; AMA; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 918. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 280 pages. 10.51x8.50x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. pp. 288, 3 Maps.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 255 x 175 mm. xx, 428 pp., 167 text illustrations. [ISBN: 978-0521782258] Clothbound. Top edge of text block faintly spotted. Otherwise a very good bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0521782252. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0521782252. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. x, 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Exhibition on view May 14 to August 30, 1993 in the Prints and Drawings Gallery of the British Museum in London ; jointly organized by the Cassiano dal Pozzo Project, the Royal Library, Windsor, the British Museum, and Olivetti. Contents: Introduction / by Francis Haskell I. Archaeological, Topographical and Architectural Drawings. Cassiano and the Tradition of drawing from the Antique / by Amanda Claridge and Jan Jenkins ; Some of the copyists after the Antique employed by Cassiano / by Nicholas Turner II. Natural History Drawings. Cassiano and the art of natural history / by David Freedberg III. Drawings from Other Soucers [sic]. Other sources of drawings in the Paper Museum / by Francesco Solinas IV. Prints. Cassiano's print collection / by Antony Griffiths The "fortuna" of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum / by Henrietta McBurney. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2001. Xx, 428 pgs. Illustrated throughout. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. This volume focuses on selected villas and their gardens in France and Italy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Interdisciplinary and fundamentally contextualizing in approach, the essays examine the relationship between landscape and court culture and statecraft; villas in their broader territorial setting; landscape and representation; gender and the garden; and the social history of garden construction, among other topics. Providing an overview of the new directions that are currently taken in cultural landscape studies, Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France also places these sites within the context of European intellectual history, material culture studies, and cultural landscape studies. EB; Cambridge Studies In New Art History And Criticism; 10.2 X 7.3 X 1.2 inches; 448 pages. …

Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Sage green wraps with black and white illustration. 278 pp. 162 illustrations in color and b&w. Exhibition on view May 14 to August 30, 1993 in the Prints and Drawings Gallery of the British Museum in London ; jointly organized by the Cassiano dal Pozzo Project, the Royal Library, Windsor, the British Museum, and Olivetti. VG-. Light toning to spine and some light general shelfwear.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions for future research.Mirka Bene and Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examine the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies. Marcello Fagiolo and Vincenzo Cazzato advance a new theory of villa systems that enlarges the geographical frame of the field. Mauro Ambrosoli highlights the contributions of anonymous laborers and gardeners in the creation of the countryside, while Lionella Scazzosi shows how this broader view of agency informs decisions by policymakers regarding the restoration and maintenance of historical gardens. Antonella Pietrogrande and Denis Ribouillault offer new interpretations of some of the most famous Renaissance sites through analyses of cultural imagination and modes of perception.This volume exemplifies the broad transformations, both quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and practice of garden design, and offers a reflective meditation on the vitality of one of the oldest branches of garden and landscape history. Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated essays by established and emerging scholars that suggest striking new directions, both quantitative and methodological, for future research. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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