The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy
(Part of the Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series)
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Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents a radically different view of villa life as it developed during the eighteenth century on the vast estates dominating the fertile Lombard plain. Governed...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0271022167
ISBN13:9780271022161
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:239 Pages
Weight:3.04 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 9.3" x 10.2"
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