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• Title:Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences / edited by Mohammad Gharipour.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Gharipour, Mohammad, editor.
  
• Published/Created:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB466.E9 G376 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gardens--Europe--History.
  Gardens--Europe--Design--History.
  Gardens--Islamic countries--History.
  Gardens--Islamic countries--Design--History.
  Gardens, European--History.
  Islamic gardens--History.
  Gardens, Renaissance.
  
• Description:xix, 250 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"A collection of essays exploring similarities between gardens and designed landscapes in Europe and the Islamic world after the fifteenth century. Essays identify possible direct or indirect influences and examine transcontinental mutual influences in garden design"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780271077796 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0271077794 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue: Paradigm Problems; Islamic Gardens in an Expanding Field / D. Fairchild Ruggles
  2. Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape / Christopher Pastore
  3. Staging the Civilizing Elements in the Gardens of Rome and Istanbul / Simone M. Kaiser
  4. Art of Garden Design in France: Ottoman Influences at the Time of the "Scandalous Alliance?" / Laurent Paya
  5. "For Beauty, and Air, and View": Contemplating the Wider Surroundings of Sixteenth-Century Mughal and European Gardens / Jill Sinclair
  6. Gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy: A New Urban Landscape? / Mohammad Gharipour
  7. "Elysian Fields Such as the Poets Dreamed Of": The Mughal Garden in the Early Stuart Mind / Paula Henderson
  8. Garden Encounters: Portugal and India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Cristina Castel-Branco
  9. Carved Pools, Rock-Cut Elephants, Inscriptions, and Tree Columns: Mughal Landscape Art as Imperial Expression and Its Analogies to the Renaissance Garden / Ebba Koch
  10. Epilogue: Italian Renaissance Gardens and the Middle East; Cultural Exchange in the Longue Duree / Anatole Tchikine.