The Palladian landscape : geographical change and its cultural representation in sixteenth-century Italy / Denis Cosgrove
1993, 1st edition. Leicester : Leicester University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386412
ISBN: 0718514378
Physical description; xv, 270 pp., illustrations, maps, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index. Contents; Presenting and representing the Palladian landscape -- Renaissance Venice and the terraferma -- Vicenza: the Palladian urban landscape -- The Palladian estate -- Water and the Palladian landscape -- Measuring and picturing the land -- The Euclidian ecstasy: describing and transforming the great machine of the world -- Landscape as theatre. Subjects; Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580. Historical geography. Architecture, Renaissance Italy Veneto. Civic art and town planning Italy 16th century.
Price: €295.00