DUMBARTON OAKS OTHER TITLES IN GARDEN HISTORY

Fountains, Statues, and Flowers

Studies in Italian Gardens of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall

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Publication Date: 01/01/1994

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Introduction [Henry A. Millon]
Preface
I. The Sixteenth Century
- 1. An Introduction to Roman Gardens of the Sixteenth Century
- 2. Il Giardino all’Antico: Roman Statuary and Italian Renaissance Gardens
- 3. The Sleeping Nymph: Origins of a Humanist Fountain Type
- 4. L’Ingegnoso Artifizio: Sixteenth-Century Garden Fountains in Rome
- 5. Ars Hortulorum: Sixteenth-Century Garden Iconography and Literary Theory in Italy
- 6. Imitation and Invention: Language and Decoration in Roman Renaissance Gardens
- 7. A Circus, a Wild Man, and a Dragon: Family History and the Villa Mattei
II. The Seventeenth Century
- 8. Venaria Reale: Ambition and Imitation in a Seventeenth-Century Villa
- 9. A Cardinal’s Bulb Garden: A Giardino Segreto at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome
Indexes
- Part I
- Part II

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