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Book ID: 95066
Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani

Medici Gardens. From Making to Design. 2008. (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture). illus. XIV, 306 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

The author challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles extracted from garden treatises, and suggests that, in the case of the gardens in Florence, garden making preceded its theoretical transformation of these gardens from functional and pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. The Medici gardens of the fifteenth century were the result both of everyday living and of a poetic activity that was influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the author compares the making of actual gardens to that of the literary pleasances described by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ficino. Although the fictional gardens appear "designed" in that their place within literary works is carefully thought through, their actual counterparts are the product of a modus operandi, indebted to horticultural knowledge handed down from one generation to another in a slowly evolving tradition.
Author Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani
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Author Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani
Page image Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani: Medici Gardens. From Making to Design. 2008. (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture). illus. XIV, 306 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. (95066) 55.64
Manufacturer University of Pennsylvania Press Blockley Hall
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