Gardens of Tuscany

Gardens of Tuscany
Author:
Publisher: Polistampa
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007
Genre: 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.

The Gardens of Florence and Tuscany. Complete Guide

The Gardens of Florence and Tuscany. Complete Guide
Author: Mariachiara Pozzana
Publisher: Giunti
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-06-05
Genre: 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.

Medici Gardens

Medici Gardens
Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1512821586

Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

The Gardens of Tuscany

The Gardens of Tuscany
Author: Ethne Clarke
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
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La Foce

La Foce
Author: Benedetta Origo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2001-10-26
Genre: 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.".

A Garden in Lucca

A Garden in Lucca
Author: Paul Gervais
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-06-13
Genre: 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.

Villas of Tuscany

Villas of Tuscany
Author:
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2003
Genre: 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.