Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175

by John Dixon Hunt

Book Overview

Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216040
• ISBN13: 9780812216042
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.9"