Villas and gardens of the Renaissance /

A stunning collection of photographs celebrating the excellence of the Italian Renaissance period through palaces and gardens built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book illustrates nine locations of extraordinary artistic and architectural interest, conceived by prominent Italian...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Impelluso, Lucia (Author)
Other Authors:	Fusaro, Dario, 1955- (Photographer), Notini, S. (Sylvia) (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Rizzoli International Publications, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Architecture, Domestic > Italy. Architecture, Renaissance > Italy. Historic buildings > Italy. Mural painting and decoration, Italian. Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance > Italy. Gardens > Italy. Gardens, Renaissance > Italy. Nobility > Homes and haunts > Italy.

Table of Contents:

Lombardy. Villa Cicogna Mozzoni, Bisuschio, Varese
Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, Lainate, Milan
Veneto. Villa dei Vescovi, Luvigliano, Padua
Villa della Torre, Fumane, Verona
Villa Barbaro, Maser, Treviso
The Giusti Garden, Verona
Marches. Villa Imperiale, Pesaro
Lazio. Sacred Wood, Bomarzo, Viterbo
Ruspoli Castle, Viganello, Viterbo
Appendix: reinterpreting the Renaissance.