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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
by Coffin, David R. and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good (Wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edge is soiled at the bottom, near the spine, but this does not appe
- ISBN 10
- 0691136777
- ISBN 13
- 9780691136776
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Princeton: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2008. Paperback. Good (Wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edge is soiled at the bottom, near the spine, but this does not appear to bleed through to the pages; textblock was bent near the bottom-right corner; interior is bright; binding is solid.). Colorfully illustrated wraps with black and white lettering and French flaps; xix, 300 pp.; richly illustrated. "Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to private Renaissance gardens, elucidating the evolving meaning of images of the goddess Venus in English gardens, and identifying the significance of the decorative programs of monuments as diverse as the Villa Belvedere in Rome and the eighteenth-century gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire."-- Publisher's description.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196761
- Title
- Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
- Author
- Coffin, David R. and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (Wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edge is soiled at the bottom, near the spine, but this does not appe
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691136777
- ISBN 13
- 9780691136776
- Publisher
- Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- European Architecture, Villas, Gardens ; Villas and Gardens ; ;
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