The history of gardens in painting
(2008)
By:
Büttner, Nils
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
758.5/BUTTNER,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Abbeville Press, [2008]
©2008
©2008
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780789209931 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0789209934 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0789209934 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The realm of Venus -- Medieval images of the world and of gardens -- Court and domestic gardens and the garden of love -- Visions of paradise -- The enclosed garden -- Pictorial rhetoric -- Precedents and symbols -- New views--ancient ideals -- Old subjects--new ideals -- Between sense and sensuality -- Gardens of the Impressionists -- Harmony parallel to nature -- Impression and expression -- Continuation and forecast
Translated from the German