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The Florilegium : The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
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The Art and Philosophy of the Garden
The Art and Philosophy of the Garden
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The Art and Philosophy of the Garden is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the aesthetics of gardens. The book focuses on five central questions: (1...
Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen
Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen
During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of ‘mixed media’ recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed gardens. They date from the ti...
Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection
Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection
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This unique collection of essays explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interdependent histories of the royal f...
Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens
Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens
Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific inte...
Outdoor Rooms
Outdoor Rooms
There is such a thing as modernist gardening, and in England Christopher Tunnard was its principal proponent. But interwar great gardens were mostly baroque in inspiration and desi...
The European Discovery of the Indian Flora
The European Discovery of the Indian Flora
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The flora of the Indian subcontinent has stirred European curiosity and investigation for over two millennia. From pepper, a coveted commodity of the lucrat...