Helena Attlee

Italian Gardens

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In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells thei story of Italian gardens. She starts with Petrarch and goes on to the Renaissance and those first gardens to emerge from architects' plans. Then she describes the great gardens of the Medici; the first botanic gardens; the Mannerist gardens and their grottoes followed by the Baroque splendour of Isola Bella and the Villa Aldobrandini; the Neoclassical and Picturesque gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and how, in the twentieth century, villas and gardens brought new delight… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7112-3392-8
EAN: 9780711233928
Produktnummer: 12634970
Verlag: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H31.3 cm x B25.3 cm x D2.0 cm 1'265 g
Abbildungen: 150 colour photographs
Gewicht: 1265

Über den Autor

HELENA ATTLEE is an author and journalist who has made the garden and its history her special subject. Her books include The Gardens of Portugal and Gardens of Wales (all publishd by Frances Lincoln). She lectures widely, writes for a wide range of journals and magazines, and leads specialist garden tours. She lives in Presteigne, Powys, with her husband, the photographer Alex Ramsay. ALEX RAMSAY is well known as an award-winning photographer of architecture, gardens and landscapes. His work has appeared in leading magazines worldwide and illustrates many books including Helena Attlee's Gardens of Wales.