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9780271082028 Academic Inspection Copy

Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice

  • ISBN-13: 9780271082028
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jodi Cranston
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2019
  • Format: Hardback 228 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]
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Considers the development of the pastoral in sixteenth-century Venice as an urban phenomenon specific to the lagoon. Studies Venetian urban gardens as actual places, imaginary spaces, and fantasies of urban planning challenged by ecological concerns.



“This rich and illuminating study bridges a gap in the art-historical scholarship, namely, that of a comprehensive treatment of early Italian pastoral painting that takes into its purview complex associations between and among geographical localities, pastoral poetry, painting, sculpture, and, importantly, both imagined and real green spaces. Cranston’s original and valid insights emerge in every chapter; her range of reference earns her the reader’s confidence, while her handling of the various motives and interpretations of the elusive pastoral ‘mode’ is creative, subtle, and, ultimately, convincing.”

—Kristin Phillips-Court, author of The Perfect Genre: Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy

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