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The Gardens of Buontalenti
Luigi Zangheri
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Bernardo Buontalenti interpreted more faithfully than any of his contemporaries the aims and principles of the Florentine culture of the second half of the sixteenth century, and was so highly regarded in his own time as to be described in 1586 as ‘a most excellent architect; in his work as engineer and...
Author
Luigi Zangheri
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Grottoes (Garden structures)
Gardens, Baroque
Gardens, Italian
Sculpture gardens
Water gardens
Curiosities and Marvels of the Sixteenth-Century Garden
Luigi Zangheri
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
In the cultural environment of the sixteenth century, the fashion for collecting works of art and the influence of patronage were to result in the steady erosion of Aristotelian concepts. The Great Cosmic Machine, which had already been the subject of intensive study, particularly in terms of the true relationship between man and nature, the principles of ‘symmetry’ and the affinity...
Author
Luigi Zangheri
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Botanical gardens
Curiosities and wonders in art
Automata
Garden ornaments and furniture
Gardens, Baroque
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