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Theory of Gardens
Jean-Marie Morel's Théorie des jardins is a fundamental 18th-century text in landscape architecture. A renowned landscape designer and theorist with an engineering background, Morel took account of natural processes that underlie landscape formation and coined the term architecte-paysagiste, the precursor to "landscape architect."
避暑山莊三十六景詩圖
Thirty-Six Views comprises poems and descriptions published by the Kangxi emperor in 1712 commemorating his newly finished summer palace and reflecting on his life there. The text is accompanied by wood-block prints of its most scenic views created by several outstanding court artists and copperplate engravings by Italian artist Matteo Ripa.
The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature
The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Featuring new and previously published translations, this anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.
Garden Culture of the Twentieth Century
Innovative landscape architect Leberecht Migge espoused an idea of garden culture that reflected the progressive political currents of early twentieth-century Germany. Garden Culture of the Twentieth Century details his vision, including an emphasis on the socioeconomic benefits of urban agriculture that prefigured this now popular trend.
Art as a Pathway to God
This book integrates history, theology, and art and analyzes the Jesuits’ cross-cultural mission in late imperial China. Readers will find a rich collection of resources from historical sites, museums, manuscripts, and archival materials, including previous unpublished works of art. The production and circulation of art from different historical periods and categories show the artistic, theological, and missional values of Christian art. It highlights European Jesuits, Asian Christians, transnationalism, and gives voice to Chinese Christian women and their patronage of art in the seventeenth century. It offers a rare systematic study of the relation between art and mission history.
Letters of a Dead Man
In 1826, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau began a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. His letters home were part memoir, part travelogue and political commentary, part epistolary novel. His rhetorical flare and acute observations provoked German poet Heinrich Heine to describe him as the "most fashionable of eccentric men--Diogenes on horseback."
Reisen und Gärten
Mit dem Band 26 der CGL-Studies setzt das Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL) der Leibniz Universität Hannover nach dem Band 11 (H. Fischer, S. Thielking, J. Wolschke-Bulmahn, Hg., Reisen in Parks und Gärten. Umrisse einer Rezeptions- und Imaginationsgeschichte), und dem Band 23 (Hubertus Fischer, Georg Ruppelt, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Hg., Eine Reise in die Schweiz. Das Reisetagebuch des hannoverschen Hofgärtners Heinrich Ludolph Wendland aus dem Jahr 1820) die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Reiseberichten in ihrem Gehalt an Informationen zur Geschichte der Gärten und des Reisens sowie zu historischen Aspekten der Landschaftswahrnehmung for...
Orders and Families of Malayan Seed Plants
The Malayan flora is one of the richest in the world. This book gives a brief systematic account of all the major groups of seed plants classified under 41 orders and 178 families which are represented by native or naturalised plants in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Within each order, a list of families, an account of the diagnostic characters, a key to the families, and a brief note on the systematic position, the evolutionary trends or other points of interest, are included. Within each family, a simple description, a short note on the distribution, and, in most cases, a key to the Malayan genera are presented. For easy reference, two appendices containing a list of orders and family names in Malay and Chinese, a simple artificial key to the common Malayan families, and a glossary are also provided.
The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Von Herrenhausen in die Welt
2009 begannen die Freunde der Herrenhäuser Gärten e.V. und das Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL) der Leibniz Universität Hannover die Vortragsreihe Sommerakademie Herrenhausen“, 2010 traten die Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft e.V. und der Fachbereich Herrenhausen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover als Kooperationspartner hinzu. Dieser Band der Herrenhäuser Schriften beinhaltet die Vorträge der Sommerakademien aus den Jahren 2015 und 2016. Die Beiträge in diesem Band spannen einen weiten Bogen – zeitlich von den Gärten des antiken Ägyptens über den Barock und die Phase des Landschaftsgartens bis in die Gegenwart. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt der Vortragsreihe liegt a...
