Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175

by John Dixon Hunt

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Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812216040

ISBN13:9780812216042

Release Date:July 1996

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.4" x 9.9"

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English Gardens Garden Design Gardening Gardening & Landscaping Reference

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