The garden : visions of paradise
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The garden : visions of paradise
(New horizons)
Thames and Hudson, 1995
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Translated from the French
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The garden is an expression of our ability to make nature into art. This pocket-sized book of the "New Horizons" series examines the evolution of the garden over more than 2000 years, exploring some of the most beautiful gardens in the world, from antiquity, medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, classical France, 18th-century England and the modern day.
Table of Contents
- The gardens of antiquity and the legacy of Islam
- the medieval garden
- the gardens of Renaissance Italy
- formality triumphant - the classic French garden
- planting pictures - the English landscape garden
- from eclecticism to modernism
- the great gardens of Europe.
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