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Italian Gardens : Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age by Helena Attlee
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Author: Helena Attlee
Page Count: 191 pages
Published Date: 25 May 2010
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781580932318
File Name: Italian.Gardens.Romantic.Splendor.in.the.Edwardian.Age.pdf
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For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs--taken during the Edwardian era when these historic gardens were at their peak--twenty-two of central Italy's most ornate and spectacular palace gardens are presented. "Italian Gardens" reveals the vanished magnificence of the aristocracy's landscapes in superb images from the archives of Britain's renowned "Country Life" magazine. Classic photographs of unrivaled beauty and composition display patterned grottoes, elaborate terraces, sophisticated fountains, antique statuary, and sun-dappled arbors to provide an important record of these gardens at a nostalgic moment in time, before the two World Wars provoked irrevocable changes in Italy's political and economic climate and many gardens fell into neglect. These vivid images dating from the early 1900s possess a quality of light and depth of detail not seen in modern photographs. Discussing the history and design of each garden, author Helena Attlee brings to life the personalities responsible for such extravagant creations as the Alley of a Hundred Fountains at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, the swirling parterres de broderie of Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome, the broad terraces and majestic staircases of the Vatican Gardens, the frescoed loggia of the Villa Medici in Fiesole, and the border of innumerable citrus trees circling the Isolotto in Florence's famous Boboli Gardens. This volume introduces the intricacies and ornaments of the sumptuous gardens of Rome and Tuscany, and will transport readers to these unique, fragrant landscapes.
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Italian Gardens : Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age by Helena Attlee
Author: Helena Attlee
Page Count: 191 pages
Published Date: 25 May 2010
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781580932318
File Name: Italian.Gardens.Romantic.Splendor.in.the.Edwardian.Age.pdf
Download Link: Italian Gardens Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age
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For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs--taken during the Edwardian era when these historic gardens were at their peak--twenty-two of central Italy's most ornate and spectacular palace gardens are presented. "Italian Gardens" reveals the vanished magnificence of the aristocracy's landscapes in superb images from the archives of Britain's renowned "Country Life" magazine. Classic photographs of unrivaled beauty and composition display patterned grottoes, elaborate terraces, sophisticated fountains, antique statuary, and sun-dappled arbors to provide an important record of these gardens at a nostalgic moment in time, before the two World Wars provoked irrevocable changes in Italy's political and economic climate and many gardens fell into neglect. These vivid images dating from the early 1900s possess a quality of light and depth of detail not seen in modern photographs. Discussing the history and design of each garden, author Helena Attlee brings to life the personalities responsible for such extravagant creations as the Alley of a Hundred Fountains at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, the swirling parterres de broderie of Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome, the broad terraces and majestic staircases of the Vatican Gardens, the frescoed loggia of the Villa Medici in Fiesole, and the border of innumerable citrus trees circling the Isolotto in Florence's famous Boboli Gardens. This volume introduces the intricacies and ornaments of the sumptuous gardens of Rome and Tuscany, and will transport readers to these unique, fragrant landscapes.
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