This book is a fascinating survey of the development of gardens in Great Britain from their medieval origins in monasteries and castles, through the ...
This book tells the story of the pleasure gardens, explaining their beginnings in the seventeenth century, their rising social importance, the variety of entertainment ...
Often described as 'the most beautiful garden in England', Hidcote is a jewel in England's horticultural history. The garden's creator, Lawrence Johnston, was inspired ...
The first book to explore the evolution of the Persian paradise garden from its ancient beginnings to today's modern designs, "Gardens of Persia" is ...
E ancora ritrovo Bomarzo. Ne avevo vaghi ricordi, cero già stata. Ricordavo alcune figure mostruose. Con del Re, ceravamo inoltrati nel cuore del giardino ...
Come tutte le storie del giardino anche questa inizia dalle civiltà più antiche e dedica molta attenzione alla Roma dellImpero. Questo percorso, consueto, non ...
Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs ...
Though Ian Hamilton Finlay's (1925-2006) work "Little Sparta" is, according to Sir Roy Strong, 'the most important garden made in Britain since 1945', his ...
Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a ...
The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west ...
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as ...
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal ...