Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents a radically different view of villa life as it developed during the eighteenth century on the vast estates dominating the fertile Lombard plain. Governed from Vienna by a Habsburg regime bent upon increased tax revenues, the great landowning families lived lives fraught with tensions and...
Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmon...
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have engaged poststructuralist theory to consider vision and representation, the application of such inquiry to the natural or built environment has lagged behind. This book, by treating landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, aims to bridge this gap, opening a new dialogue for discussing the...
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of des...
Herbal Antibiotics and Antivirals- Natural Herbal Treatments that can Cure Almost All Ailments It's been a part of human culture for 60,000 years, and you can see its influence in every great civilization throughout history, from the Egyptians to the Greeks to the Chinese. It has saved countless human lives and bettered even more, and it can become a part of your life today. What is it? Herbal medicine. Many herbs offer a number of health benefits to those who know how to use them, and herbal remedies exist for everything ranging from the common cold to Alzheimer's disease. Herbs are an...
Herbal Antibiotics and Antivirals- Natural Herbal Treatments that can Cure Almost All Ailments It's been a part of human culture for 60,000 years, and...
