Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 October 2012

Published in 1931, the fascinating diary of the most fashionable garden designer in France in the late 1700s.

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 December 2020

Carmontelle’s landmark publication, Garden at Monceau, beautifully reproduced to show the Parisian garden’s artistic and cultural importance before the French Revolution. Originally published in 1779, Garden at Monceau is

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 June 2016

Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 27 March 2019

Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, literature and the sciences, focusing on engagements with natural forms and forces, and

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2003

In this innovative study of the Grand Tour, Black relies on archival sources to provide an exploration of the real tourist experience rather than, as for the majority of studies

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 29,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 April 2023

William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 22,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 February 2007

This international bestseller profiles eight of Europe's most famous royal brides, from the author of "The Serpent and the Moon" and "Cupid and the King." 16-page photo insert.

• Publisher : CUP Archive
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 May 2024

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2020

This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2013

The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men—