The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto - Rilegato

Condie, Jenny

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0711234043 ISBN 13: 9780711234048

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Riassunto

The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto draws together an amazing variety of spellbinding garden retreats, from monastery gardens quietly cultivated in the islands of the lagoon to magnificent villas on the Brenta Canal, and baroque masterpieces in the hills beyond. Highlights include an eerie Masonic garden complete with gothic chapel and cavernous grottoes, a pleasure garden made for his workers by a benevolent nineteenth-century industrialist, and a flower-filled delight by the banks of the Grand Canal.

This is a book of ravishing images and intriguing stories. The garden behind Henry James's Aspern Papers is here, along with the garden which so beguiled Margaret Symonds, the young English author of Days Spent on a Doge's Farm. With an emphasis on gardens that can be visited, longtime resident Jenny Condie elucidates the dynastic triumphs, the reversals of fortune, and the shifts in taste and influence which have shaped these extraordinary places.

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Recensione:

"Venice is famous for its canals, but it has gardens, too. Condie, who lives there, teams with photographer Ramsay in a lively, detailed coffee-table book that showcases the eclectic range of horticultural treasures that exist within Venice and the surrounding countryside. After providing a concise history of landscape design in the region, Condie explores more than 20 gardens (almost all of which are open to the public), including the scientifically derived botanical gardens at the University of Padua and the Zen-like botanical beauty of the garden at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. While Mariagrazia Dammicco’s Venetian Gardens looks at a greater number of public and private gardens, it gives less detail. Both Helena Attlee’s Italy’s Private Gardens: An Inside View and Kirsty McLeod’s The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller’s Guide have small chapters devoted to Venetian gardens, but their focus is broader. VERDICT Gardeners winging their way to Venice will find that Condie’s title offers a number of excellent sightseeing opportunities, while armchair gardeners and armchair travelers will enjoy savoring this entertaining mix of horticultural history and drool-worthy photographs from the comfort of home."— Library Journal

L'autore:

Jenny Condie was born in Edinburgh and took a degree in Italian and History of Art at UCL. She has translated a number of substantial works in the area of art and literary history and criticism, and she has also written in Italian as a journalist. More recently she has worked with the Fondazione di Venezia to originate and run workshops on English Literature for children in local schools. Jenny Condie has lived in Venice since 2002 with her husband, the novelist Enrico Palandri and their three children.Alex Ramsay is well known as an award-winning photographer of architecture, gardens and landscapes. His work has appeared in leading magazines worldwide and illustrates many books including Helena Attlee's Italian Gardens: A Cultural History.YOKO KAWAGUCHI was born in Tokyo and educated in the United States, Canada and Japan. She has lived in the UK for the last twenty years. The author of Serene Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden, she lectures on Japanese garden history, and has appeared on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour and the BBC World Service.

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0711234043
• ISBN 13: 9780711234048
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224