Renaissance porticoes and painted pergolas: nature and culture in early modern italy
Auteur :
Nonaka, Natsumi
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367334130
Date de publication :
18 avr. 2019
Dimensions :
24,6 x 17,4 cm
Poids :
500 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book explores the intersection between architecture, pictorial representation, garden culture, and natural history and proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was a metaphor for the Renaissance mind as it negotiated a new cognitive topography between an internal rationalism, classical verities, and global expansion.