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Author Nonaka, Natsumi, author

Title Renaissance porticoes and painted pergolas : nature and culture in early modern Italy / Natsumi Nonaka
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, plates
Series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Visual culture in early modernity.
Contents 1. Mediating spaces : portico, loggia, and pergola -- 2. Classical tradition and vernacular culture : Villa Farnesina and the First Loggia of Leo X -- 3. Visual encyclopedia and trellised walkways : Medici Gardens and the Villa d'Este -- 4. Pictorial fiction and cultural identity : Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese -- 5. Wunderkammer and trompe-l'oeil garden : Palazzo Altemps and the Loggia of Cardinal Borghese -- 6. Collecting nature : virtual flora and fauna
Summary This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden--the pergola--became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature
Notes "An Ashgate book."--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-222) and index
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Subject Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy.
Porticoes -- Italy
Porticoes -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Porticoes -- Italy -- History -- 17th century
Porticoes -- Italy -- History -- Pictorial works
Pergolas in art.
Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Themes, motives
Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Themes, motives
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Renaissance.
Architecture, Renaissance
Architecture, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
Pergolas in art
Porticoes
Italy
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
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Other Titles Nature and culture in early modern Italy