Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences /

Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences / edited by Mohammad Gharipour. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue : paradigm problems : Islamic gardens in an expanding field / Embracing the other : Venetian garden design, early modern travelers, and the Islamic landscape / Staging the civilizing elements in the gardens of Rome and Istanbul / The art of garden design in France : Ottoman influences at the time of the "scandalous alliance?" / "For beauty, and air, and view" : contemplating the wider surroundings of sixteenth-century Mughal and European gardens / The gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy : a new urban landscape? / "Elysian fields such as the poets dreamed of" : the Mughal garden in the early Stuart mind / Garden encounters : Portugal and India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Carved pools, rock-cut elephants, inscriptions, and tree columns : Mughal landscape art as imperial expression and its analogies to the Renaissance garden / Epilogue : Italian Renaissance gardens and the Middle East : cultural exchange in the longue durée / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Christopher Pastore -- Simone M. Kaiser -- Laurent Paya -- Jill Sinclair -- Mohammad Gharipour -- Paula Henderson -- Cristina Castel-Branco -- Ebba Koch -- Anatole Tchikine.

"A collection of essays exploring similarities between gardens and designed landscapes in Europe and the Islamic world after the fifteenth century. Essays identify possible direct or indirect influences and examine transcontinental mutual influences in garden design"--Provided by publisher.



9780271080697




Gardens--History.--Europe
Gardens--Design--History.--Europe
Gardens--History.--Islamic countries
Gardens--Design--History.--Islamic countries
Gardens, European--History.
Islamic gardens--History.
Gardens, Renaissance.


Electronic Books.

SB466 / .G373 2017