Download or read book The Florentine Villa written by Grazia Gobbi Sica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: analyzes 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.
Download or read book Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century written by Amanda Lillie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.
Download or read book The Florentine Villa written by Grazia Gobbi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a 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. It offers not only an analysis of the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, but also analyses the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa.
Download or read book Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century written by Amanda Lillie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Florentine Villa Architecture History Society written by Roland Kim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Florentine Villas written by Janet Ross and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florentine Villas Classic Reprint written by Janet Ross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Florentine Villas In early times the great Florentine families lived in their strong castles like robber chieftians, waging incessant war on each other and on the adjacent villages and towns, and when later they went to dwell in the walled city they built their palaces like strongholds. High towers and thick walls defended Guelf against Ghibelline, and as one party or the other obtained supremacy the beaten rivals were driven to seek refuge in their hill-castles. The nobles, writes Macchiavelli, were divided against each other and the people against the nobles. And from these divisions resulted so many deaths, so many banishments, so many destructions of families, as never befell in any other city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Italian Villas and Their Gardens written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medici Villas written by Isabella Lapi Ballerini and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Pietra written by A. Richard Turner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-08-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful, heavily illustrated volume reveals the beauty and history of one of the great Florentine villas and of the extraordinary Anglo-American family, the Actons, who in the 20th century restored it to its former glory.
Download or read book Leonardo the Florentine written by Rachel Annand Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden Lives Secret Gardens written by R. T. Schnadelbach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hidden lives / secret gardens is a synthetic history about gardens and human sexuality. Written in an accessible style for the garden enthusiast, the serious landscape designer, and those interested in the lives of international celebrities, the book explores the very roots of Modernism as begun in Florence, Italy in the very first year of the twentieth century. For the past twenty-years, R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, has researched the Modernist era in landscape architecture. He authored a book, Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, on the Florentine landscape architect, who brought to America both the formal garden as well as its first Modernist landscapes. In hidden lives / secret gardens, Schnadelbach exposes the engaging and intertwined lives of a group of expatriates, their secluded hillside villas and secret new gardens that ushered a new direction in garden design. Three successive new gardens at Villas Gamberaia, La Pietra and I Tatti were among the earliest Modernist landscapes and were an inspiration many landscape professionals in Britain and America. While hidden lives / secret gardens manuscript focuses on the revival of the Renaissance aesthetic in Florence and paints a picture of each garden's history, it explores the new and emerging field of sexual psychology through the hidden lives of the Villa's owners and designers, revealing their artistic life styles, their commercial and sexual mores.
Download or read book In and Out of Florence written by Vernon Lyman Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and Their Followers from Donatello to Bernini written by Bertha Harris Wiles and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Villas of Florence and Tuscany written by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Guide to the Paintings in the Florentine Galleries the Uffizi the Pitti the Accademia written by Maud Cruttwell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
