Author: Simone Martini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Proposes that the Villa Medici in Fiesole owes its design to Leon Battista Alberti, not to Michelozzo, and that it then became the prototype of the Renaissance villa.
Villa Medici a Fiesole
Author: Simone Martini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Proposes that the Villa Medici in Fiesole owes its design to Leon Battista Alberti, not to Michelozzo, and that it then became the prototype of the Renaissance villa.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Proposes that the Villa Medici in Fiesole owes its design to Leon Battista Alberti, not to Michelozzo, and that it then became the prototype of the Renaissance villa.
Villa Medici at Fiesole
Medici villas North-West of Florence
Author: Stefano Casciu
Publisher: Edizioni Polistampa
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Utile guida alle ville e ai giardini nei dintorni di Firenze, il libro permette di conoscere i complessi architettonici rurali delle più illustri e nobili famiglie fiorentine, prima fra tutte quella dei Medici, e le testimonianze archeologiche della Piana e delle colline a nord-ovest di Firenze. "Circondate da splendidi parchi e giardini - recita la presentazione di Matteo Renzi - le ville medicee, ma non solo, sono una grande ricchezza per i fiorentini ma anche per i turisti". A partire dalla formidabile triade delle ville medicee della zona di confine con Sesto: Petraia, Castello e Corsini, recentemente rilanciata anche grazie al restauro e all'esposizione di pezzi antichi provenienti dagli Uffizi. Ma tante altre ville, musei, luoghi privilegiati per l'incontro con la natura e con l'arte costellano il percorso: ognuno potrà divertirsi a scoprirli, sul territorio e sul volume. "L'iniziativa inviterà chi non ne ha l'esperienza diretta - scrive Cristina Acidini - a familiarizzare con le novità degli ultimi anni, dalla sistemazione delle magnifiche fontane cinquecentesche di Castello e Petraia alle colture introdotte nei giardini.
Publisher: Edizioni Polistampa
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Utile guida alle ville e ai giardini nei dintorni di Firenze, il libro permette di conoscere i complessi architettonici rurali delle più illustri e nobili famiglie fiorentine, prima fra tutte quella dei Medici, e le testimonianze archeologiche della Piana e delle colline a nord-ovest di Firenze. "Circondate da splendidi parchi e giardini - recita la presentazione di Matteo Renzi - le ville medicee, ma non solo, sono una grande ricchezza per i fiorentini ma anche per i turisti". A partire dalla formidabile triade delle ville medicee della zona di confine con Sesto: Petraia, Castello e Corsini, recentemente rilanciata anche grazie al restauro e all'esposizione di pezzi antichi provenienti dagli Uffizi. Ma tante altre ville, musei, luoghi privilegiati per l'incontro con la natura e con l'arte costellano il percorso: ognuno potrà divertirsi a scoprirli, sul territorio e sul volume. "L'iniziativa inviterà chi non ne ha l'esperienza diretta - scrive Cristina Acidini - a familiarizzare con le novità degli ultimi anni, dalla sistemazione delle magnifiche fontane cinquecentesche di Castello e Petraia alle colture introdotte nei giardini.
Design on the Land
Author: Norman T. Newton
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780674198708
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780674198708
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance
Author: John Chiene Shepherd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Images and Shadows
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.
Design and Analysis
Author: Bernard Leupen
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064502590
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064502590
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity
Author: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226173009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226173009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.
Villa Madama
Author: Claudio Strinati
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The ideal model of a suburban residence desired by Leo X (1513-1521), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and continued by his cardinal cousin Giulio de' Medici, the future Clement VII (1523-1534), the 'vigna del papa', or papal residence, to be called Villa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The ideal model of a suburban residence desired by Leo X (1513-1521), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and continued by his cardinal cousin Giulio de' Medici, the future Clement VII (1523-1534), the 'vigna del papa', or papal residence, to be called Villa
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262510608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262510608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.