Italian Villas and Their Gardens
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Sm Quarto, Green Gilt Lettered Cloth, PP.270, Color And B & W Reproductions Of Maxfield Parrish Illustrations, A New Edition Of This Classic With Introductory Essays By Henry Hope Reed And Thomsa S. Hayes
Chapters (230)(click to expand)
- ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION ITALIAN GARDEN-MAGIC
- I FLORENTINE VILLAS
- II SIENESE VILLAS
- III ROMAN VILLAS
- IV VILLAS NEAR ROME
- I CAPRAROLA AND LANTE
- II VILLA D’ESTE
- III FRASCATI
- V GENOESE VILLAS
- VI LOMBARD VILLAS
- VII VILLAS OF VENETIA
- LIST OF BOOKS MENTIONED
- ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE-GARDENERS MENTIONED
- ALESSI (GALEAZZO) 1512-1572
- ALGARDI (ALESSANDRO) 1602-1654
- AMMANATI (BARTOLOMMEO) 1511-1592
- BERNINI (GIOVANNI LORENZO) 1598-1680
- BORROMINI (FRANCESCO) 1599-1667
- BRAMANTE (DONATO) 1444-1514
- BROWN (LANCELOT) 1715-1783
- BUONTALENTI (BERNARDO TIMANTE) 1536-1608
- CAMPORESI (PIETRO) B. ——, d. 1781
- CARLONE
- CASTELLI (CARLO) XVII Century
- CASTELLO (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) CALLED IL BERGAMASCO 1509-1579
- CRIVELLI XVII Century
- FERRI (ANTONIO) XVII Century
- FONTANA (CARLO) 1634-1714
- FONTANA (GIOVANNI) 1546-1614
- FRIGIMELICA (COUNT GIROLAMO) XVIII Century
- JUVARA (FILIPPO) 1685-1735
- LE NÔTRE (ANDRÉ) 1613-1700
- LIGORIO (PIRRO) 1493-1580
- LIPPI (ANNIBALE) B. ——, d. 1581
- LONGHENA (BALDASSARE) 1604-1682
- LUNGHI OR LONGHI (MARTINO) THE ELDER XVI Century
- MARCHIONNE (CARLO) 1704-1780
- MICHELANGELO (SIMONE BUONARROTI) 1475-1564
- MONTORSOLI (FRA GIOVANNI ANGELO) 1507-1563
- MOORE (JACOB) 1740-1793
- MORA XVII Century
- NOLLI (ANTONIO) XVIII Century
- NOLLI (PIETRO) XVIII Century
- OLIVIERI (ORAZIO) OF TIVOLI XVI Century
- PALLADIO (ANDREA) 1508-1580
- PARIGI (GIULIO) B. ——, d. 1635
- PERUZZI (BALDASSARE) 1481-1537
- PIRANESI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) 1720-1778
- PONZIO (FLAMINIO) 1575-1620
- PORTA (GIACOMO DELLA) 1541-1604
- PRATI XVIII Century
- RAINALDI (GIROLAMO) 1570-1655
- RAPHAEL SANZIO 1483-1520
- REPTON (HUMPHREY) 1752-1818
- ROMANO (GIULIO DEI GIANNUZZI—ALSO CALLED GIULIO PIPPI) 1492-1546
- RUGGIERI (ANTONIO MARIA) XVIII Century
- SANGALLO (ANTONIO GIAMBERTI DA) 1455-1534
- SANGALLO, THE YOUNGER (ANTONIO CORDIANI DA) 1483-1546
- SANGALLO (GIULIANO GIAMBERTI DA) 1445-1516
- SANSOVINO (JACOPO TATTI) 1487-1570
- SAVINO (DOMENICO) XVIII Century
- TITO (SANTI DI) OF FLORENCE 1536-1603
- IL TRIBOLO (NICCOLÓ PERICOLI) 1485-1550
- UDINE (GIOVANNI DA) 1487-1564
- VAGA (PIERIN DEL) 1500-1547
- VASANZIO (GIOVANNI) B. ——, d. 1622
- VASARI (GIORGIO) 1511-1574
- VIGNOLA (GIACOMO BAROZZI DA) 1507-1573
- INDEX
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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