Fountains Statues And Flowers
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Fountains Statues And Flowers
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Author : Elisabeth B. MacDougall
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1994
Fountains Statues And Flowers written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architecture categories.
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
The Flowers And Gardens Of Japan
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Author : Florence Du Cane
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 1908
The Flowers And Gardens Of Japan written by Florence Du Cane and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Botany categories.
Renaissance Fun
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Author : Philip Steadman
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-04-13
Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Art categories.
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Specimens Of Architecture And Sculpture
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Author : A. Raguenet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Specimens Of Architecture And Sculpture written by A. Raguenet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Architecture categories.
The Building News And Engineering Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Building News And Engineering Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Architecture categories.
Cultivated Power
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Author : Elizabeth Hyde
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2005-04-04
Cultivated Power written by Elizabeth Hyde and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-04 with History categories.
Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.
The Flower Garden Containing Directions For The Cultivation Of All Garden Flowers Etc By Charles Macintosh With Plates
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
The Flower Garden Containing Directions For The Cultivation Of All Garden Flowers Etc By Charles Macintosh With Plates written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
An Oak Spring Flora
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-29
An Oak Spring Flora written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-29 with categories.
This is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.
The American Cyclopaedia
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Author : George Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The American Cyclop Dia
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Author : George Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The American Cyclop Dia written by George Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Encyclopedias categories.