1st Edition
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy
By Natsumi Nonaka
Copyright 2017
256 Pages
24 Color & 76 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
24 Color & 76 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
24 Color & 76 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Mediating Spaces: Portico, Loggia, and Pergola
Chapter 2 Classical Tradition and Vernacular Culture
Chapter 3 Visual Encyclopedia and Trellised Walkways
Chapter 4 Pictorial Fiction and Cultural Identity
Chapter 5 Wunderkammer and Trompe-l’Œil Garden
Chapter 6 Collecting Nature: Virtual Flora and Fauna
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Biography
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.
