{"product_id":"garden-and-grove-the-italian-renaissance-garden-in-the-english-imagination-16-175-paperback-softback-9780812216042","title":"Garden and Grove; The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216042","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGarden and Grove\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Dixon Hunt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216042\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 July 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 113 illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.1 x 18.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art.\" (\u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarden and Grove\u003c\/i\u003e 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 made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.\u003cbr\u003e With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before \"Capability\" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 1996 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. ITALY THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Garden on the Grand Tour\u003cbr\u003e 2 Classical Ground and Classical Gardens\u003cbr\u003e 3 Villa and Vigna\u003cbr\u003e 4 Ovid in the Garden\u003cbr\u003e 5 Garden and Theatre\u003cbr\u003e 6 Cabinets of Curiosity\u003cbr\u003e 7 Variety\u003cbr\u003e 8 Art and Nature\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. ENGLAND THE WORLD OF THE GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e 9 'My Patterne For A Countrey Seat'\u003cbr\u003e 10 'The Way of Italian Gardens'\u003cbr\u003e 11 'Palladian' Gardening\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744622047512,"sku":"9780812216042","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/garden-and-grove-the-italian-renaissance-garden-in-the-english-imagination-16-175-paperback-softback-9780812216042","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}