L'immagine del labirinto appare intrisa di sacralità e di mistero fin dalla più remota antichità. Il labirinto presenta una doppia valenza in quanto permette ...
This book presents a chronological review of garden design which both simplifies the big picture and supplies a rationale, with examples, of the merits ...
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long ...
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid ...
Passion Plants and Patronage takes readers on a luscious voyage through three centuries of Bute family commissioned gardens. Art, architecture and landscape have come ...
Gertrude Jekyll, the esteemed British horticulturist, garden designer and writer, is lauded by many as a premier influence in landscape design. Her concept of ...
Durante el siglo XVIII, Madrid vive uno de los capítulos más apasionantes de su historia urbanística. Se erigen monumentos emblemáticos, se abren paseos y ...
The first major illustrated monograph in many years on the history of gardens, landscape design, and architecture, focusing on both the Western and Eastern ...
Gardening became a popular pastime in Victorian Britain with the rise of suburban gardens and a passion for the outdoors. New plant introductions from ...
Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, but they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. Today they ...
The Pinturesque was an aesthetic concept that aroused enormous interest and some controversy, towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a way ...
Un opera indispensabile per gli appassionati di giardini, di architettura e di arte che approfondisce lintreccio del cosmo giardino con le più alte espressioni ...
This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens - some still existing, many others lost - have been ...
