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Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas: Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy - Visual Culture in Early Modernity Natsumi Nonaka 1st edition
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas: Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy - Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Natsumi Nonaka
This book explores the intersection between architecture, pictorial representation, garden culture, and natural history and proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was a metaphor for the Renaissance mind as it negotiated a new cognitive topography between an internal rationalism, classical verities, and global expansion.
226 pages, 24 Illustrations, color; 76 Illustrations, black and white
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 18, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367334130 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 246 × 176 × 15 mm · 448 g |
| Language | English |