Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas: Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy

ISBN-13: 9780367334130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Natsumi Nonaka

Opis

This book explores the intersection between architecture, pictorial representation, garden culture, and natural history and proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was a metaphor for the Renaissance mind as it negotiated a new cognitive topography between an internal rationalism, classical verities, and global expansion.

O autorze

Natsumi Nonaka received her Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Her specialization is art and architecture in early modern Italy. She taught architectural history at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently teaching art history at Montana State University.