Book ID: 102051
Rinaldi, Bianca Maria
The "Chinese Garden in Good Taste". Jesuits and Europe's Knowledge of Chinese Flora and Art of the Garden in the 17th and 18th Centuries. 2006. (CGL-Studies, 2). illus. 294 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
The book explores the Jesuit's discovery of the world of gardens ofChina, and documents and analyses the materials both from Chinese floraand art of garden they made available during the 17th and 18th centuries.