Fountains Statues And Flowers

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Fountains, Statues, and Flowers

Elisabeth B. MacDougall
Fountains Statues and Flowers Book PDF

Author : Elisabeth B. MacDougall
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022161

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Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Renaissance Fun

Philip Steadman
Renaissance Fun Book PDF

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787359154

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Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.

An Oak Spring Flora

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300242560

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This is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.

John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening

Therese O'Malley,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
John Evelyn s Elysium Britannicum and European Gardening Book PDF

Author : Therese O'Malley,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022404

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John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening by Therese O'Malley,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Pdf

John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a pivotal figure in 17th-century intellectual life in England. The contributors approach him and his work from diverse disciplines: architectural and intellectual history and histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present the "Elysium Britannicum" as a central document of late European humanism.

The American Cyclopaedia

George Ripley,Charles Anderson Dana
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Author : George Ripley,Charles Anderson Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015068381386

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The American Cyclopædia

George Ripley,Charles Anderson Dana
The American Cyclop dia Book PDF

Author : George Ripley,Charles Anderson Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : HARVARD:HN585Q

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The Rutgers Art Review

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UCBK:C072558160

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Making the Marvelous

Rori Bloom
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Author : Rori Bloom
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496231734

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At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1652–1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through close readings of these authors’ descriptive prose, Rori Bloom shows how these practitioners of a supposedly minor genre made a major contribution as chroniclers and critics of the decorative arts in Old Regime France. Identifying these authors’ embrace of the pretty and the playful as a response to a frequent critique of fairy tales as childish and feminine, Making the Marvelous demonstrates their integration of artisan’s work, child’s play, and the lady’s toilette into a complex vision of creativity. D’Aulnoy and Murat changed the stakes of the fairy tale, Bloom argues: instead of inviting their readers to marvel at the magic that changes rags to riches, they enjoined them to acknowledge the skill that transforms raw materials into beautiful works of art.