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The Science of Describing
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and a...
St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne
The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe. The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of corporate cohesion that characterized the cult. Though the primacy of St. Ursula as the leader of this holy band was established by the tenth century, she was conceived as the head of a corporate body. Innumerable inventories and liturgical texts attest to the fact that this cult was commemorated and referenced as a collective mass - Undecim millium virginum. This group identity informed, and was formulated by, the presentation of ...
The Jesuits
An astounding history of the accomplishments of the Society of Jesus, from painting and poetry to cartography and physics, from Europe to New France to China.
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden
Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.
A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples
This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on the creation of foreign nations within the main Italian cities. These social and cultural dimensions are further explored through the study of the obsessive persistence of the family’s relationship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, exhibited both publicly, in the Florentine and Neapolitan family chapels, and privately in their homes. The main achievement of this study is to move the focus from the ruli...
Heritage Gardens
Heritage gardens create huge management headaches. How does one preserve a garden designed for the enjoyment of the few when the advent of the many grinds it away to nothing? The answer, as presented in Heritage Gardens is a subterfuge: preserve the illusion of the created environment as originally conceived, but adjust it using more durable materials: plants and designs which require less cultivation. Of all the problems facing the heritage industry today, the managment of gardens and landscape environment create some of the greatest difficulties. This book seeks to provide some of the answers.
Der Garten - ein Ort des Wandels
Denkmalpflege im Garten ist eine spannungsvolle Aufgabe: Welche Kulturleistung wäre stärker dem Wandel unterworfen als ein Garten – im Laufe des Tages, der Jahreszeiten und längerer Zeiträume? Denkmalpflege dagegen zielt auf Dauer, auf Bewahrung des Bestandes, sie will Veränderungen ausschalten oder wenigstens minimieren. Die vorliegende Publikation weist einen Weg, der die denkmalpflegerischen Grundsätze der Substanzerhaltung berücksichtigt, ohne den gärtnerischen Prozess zu unterbinden, indem der Wandel als Denkmalwert des Gartens begriffen und in die Erhaltungsstrategien integriert wird. In einem ersten Teil wird der natur- und der menschenbedingte Wandel im Garten aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive fokussiert. Die im zweiten Teil vorgestellten Beispiele zeigen die Chancen, aber auch die hohen Ansprüche, die sich dem Denkmalpfleger, dem Gestalter und dem Auftraggeber stellen, wenn das Gartendenkmal nicht als statisches Bild, sondern als Prozess verstanden wird.
The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
Baroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.
