Monday, July 21, 2008

'Medici Gardens' by R. Fabiani Giannetto

Medici Gardens: From Making to Design
by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

* Giardini di Toscana

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