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Medici Gardens : From Making to Design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn Studies in Landscape ArchitecturePublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 54 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812240726
  • 9781512821581
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.6 23
LOC classification:
  • SB466.I82 F5652 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Medici Gardens -- 2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art -- 3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism -- 4. Practice and Theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza -- Appendix B. Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Medici Gardens -- 2. From Work of Nature to Work of Art -- 3. Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism -- 4. Practice and Theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza -- Appendix B. Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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