Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences
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Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences
The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Prologue : paradigm problems : Islamic gardens in an expanding field / D. Fairchild Ruggles
- Embracing the other : Venetian garden design, early modern travelers, and the Islamic landscape / Christopher Pastore
- Staging the civilizing elements in the gardens of Rome and Istanbul / Simone M. Kaiser
- The art of garden design in France : Ottoman influences at the time of the "scandalous alliance" / Laurent Paya
- "For beauty, and air, and view" : contemplating the wider surroundings of sixteenth-century Mughal and European gardens / Jill Sinclair
- The gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy : a new urban landscape? / Mohammad Gharipour
- "Elysian fields such as the poets dreamed of" : the Mughal garden in the early Stuart mind / Paula Henderson
- Garden encounters : Portugal and India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cristina Castel-Branco
- Carved pools, rock-cut elephants, inscriptions, and tree columns : Mughal landscape art as imperial expression and its analogies to the Renaissance garden / Ebba Koch
- Epilogue : Italian Renaissance gardens and the Middle East : cultural exchange in the longue durée / Anatole Tchikine
