UID:
almahu_9949384508702882
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations, plates
ISBN:
9781351858182
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1351858181
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9781351858175
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1351858173
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9781315229133
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1315229137
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9781351858168
,
1351858165
Series Statement:
Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Content:
This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden--the pergola--became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature.
Note:
"An Ashgate book."--Cover.
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1. Mediating spaces : portico, loggia, and pergola -- 2. Classical tradition and vernacular culture : Villa Farnesina and the First Loggia of Leo X -- 3. Visual encyclopedia and trellised walkways : Medici Gardens and the Villa d'Este -- 4. Pictorial fiction and cultural identity : Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese -- 5. Wunderkammer and trompe-l'oeil garden : Palazzo Altemps and the Loggia of Cardinal Borghese -- 6. Collecting nature : virtual flora and fauna.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Nonaka, Natsumi. Renaissance porticoes and painted pergolas. Nature and culture in early modern Italy. Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd 2017 ISBN 9781472460530
Additional Edition:
Print version: Nonaka, Natsumi. Renaissance porticoes and painted pergolas. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017] ISBN 9781472460530
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Pictorial works.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315229133
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351858182
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