Villas and Gardens of Tuscany
Author : Sophie Bajard
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Sophie Bajard
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
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Publisher : Polistampa
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The most beautiful Tuscan gardens seen through the work of the photographer, Massimo Listri, with descriptive and historical texts from a team of experts. Forty-two gardens are examined: eighteen of which are in Florence: Boboli, Torrigiani Garden, Villa i Tatti, Villa Gamberaia, Fonte Lucente, Villa Demidoff Park, Villa La Pietra and others. The whole history of the gardens of Tuscany is retraced by Mariella Zoppi in the introduction. Texts by: Gilberto Bedini, Chiara Bichi, Andrea Boscu Bianchi Bandinelli, Enrica Buccioni, Marco Cei, Cesare Cunaccia, Giorgio Galletti, Massimo Gregorini, Biagio Guccione, Alberto Giuntoli, Isabella Lapi Ballerini, Paola Maresca, Litta Medri, Rosetta Ragghianti, Ines Romitti, Vieri Torrigiani, Luigi Zangheri, Mariella Zoppi.
Author : Mariachiara Pozzana
Publisher : Giunti
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8809859979
Gardens, an important part of Italy’s great artistic heritage, are only too often little known or hard to find. Thanks to this guide, they can now be fully explored, appreciated and admired A complete guide, abundantly illustrated, to all of the gardens, public and private, now open to visitors, gardens that enrich still further the vast cultural heritage of a city and a region beloved by Italy and the whole world. Maps, drawings and botanical descriptions make this guide very helpful to tourists, as well as highly interesting to garden-lovers and experts in the field. The description of each garden is accompanied by historical information on the architects, gardeners, artists and clients who created it, as well as itineraries for enjoying it to the fullest, and all the information needed to plan a visit.
Author : Ethne Clarke
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Paul Gervais
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2001-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786884391
Now available in paperback, this delightful memoir, written by critically acclaimed novelist Paul Gervais, recounts the challenges, elations, setbacks, and revelations that accompanied the process of making an acclaimed garden out of the sprawling, overgrown grounds of a Renaissance Tuscan hunting lodge.
Author : Benedetta Origo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812235932
Situated in the Val d'Orcia, a wide valley in southeastern Tuscany, La Foce is run by Benedetta and Donata Origo, and is open to the public one day a week.".
Author : Maria Chiara Pozzana
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9788809020641
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Gardens
ISBN :
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
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Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781860649981
Dotted across the ancient Tuscan landscape of rolling hills, olive groves and towering cypress trees, sit some of the greatest country houses of Italy. Here, Professor Carlo Cresti and the photographer Massimo Listri present buildings by such noted masters as Sangallo, Buontalenti and Peruzzi.