The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society :The Classical Tradition in Architecture
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Book Details
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge; English Language Ed edition (December 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415443970
ISBN-13: 978-0415443975
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day.
Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author:
offers analyses the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa.
Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author:
offers analyses the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa.
explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation
looks at the villas existing in the area.
A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
looks at the villas existing in the area.
A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
Book Details
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge; English Language Ed edition (December 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415443970
ISBN-13: 978-0415443975
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