Garden Architecture In Europe 1450-1800

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Taschen
Publisher Place: Germany
Publisher Year: 1992
Edition: First Edition

Description: 236 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. From The Villa Garden Of The Italian Renaissance To The English Landscape Garden.

Publishers Description: Throughout history men have sought to construct gardens which symbolize the world as they would like to see it, whether this was an Arcadian paradise, a place of perfect symmetry and harmony, a return to untamed nature or a hierarchy of power and privilege. This book examines these and other visions of the garden in the course of describing the architecture of 20 of Europes most famous gardens from the Villa dEste to Versailles and Vaux-le-Vicomte to Castle Howard. The crowning glory of the book however is the absolutely sumptuous colour photography. (Kirkus UK)

ISBN: 9783822805404