Renaissance Discoveries: Italian Gardens

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Renaissance Discoveries: Italian Gardens

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The Italian Renaissance marked important innovations not only in painting and architecture but also in the design and function of the garden. Just architects such as Filippo Brunelleschi were inspired by ancient Roman themes in their architecture, so too garden designers of the 1400s referenced the ancient Roman passion for beauty, measure and order. This video looks at the changing attitudes toward the garden in Italy, from Petrarch in the 1300s to Leon Battista Alberti a century later. We look especially at the Villa Medici in Fiesole, whose garden was engineered and designed for Giovanni de’ Medici, younger son of Cosimo. This beautiful style then spread outward from Italy-to France, England, Spain, and the United States.

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@pamedarix8814 6 ай бұрын

12:02. Thank you i have been trying to find info on garden religions. Who doesnt like garden wine😂 Definatly getting a rewatch

@miketackabery7521 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. Terrific to hear the early renaissance foundations, and especially regarding Giovanni de Medici establishing the villa at Fiesole. All my reading of it never mentions him... oddly. Your video answered questions I'd never even formulated! An aside: the common understanding of Italian gardens is of green structure, and though they certainly are founded on that, originally they were full of flowers also. I know of no Italians making those restorations, but a few later Italian-influenced gardens are: notably at Vaux le Vicomte.

@tudorarter1527 2 жыл бұрын

Another erudite and engaging presentation. As is made clear at the end of the video, the Italian Renaissance garden was copied across Europe over the two centuries or so that followed and, one might add, nowhere more assiduously than in France during its so called ‘classical age’. Then at the start of the eighteenth century the ‘English garden’ hit the scene and, for better ir worse, it was all change from there on!

@miketackabery7521 2 жыл бұрын

For heaven's sake! I normally don't watch the very end of a video because it's usually credits and requests for subscription, but I liked this so much I did... and discovered you wrote a favorite book of mine: Brunelleschi's Dome! Awesome! I'm gonna have to watch a lot more of you!

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video ... and Brunelleschi's Dome!

@LL-ye5tz 2 жыл бұрын

stumbled upon this video by accident and pleasantly surprised by the fact that one of my favorite authors has a KZfaq channel!

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - I hope you enjoy the videos!

@LL-ye5tz 2 жыл бұрын

@@rossking3163 Absolutely, now I am catching up on all your other videos. Looking at the comments and suggestions below, I would love you continuing the garden theme with Mediterranean gardens and their Islamic influence!

@tonyfoglio6745 2 жыл бұрын

As always, so enlightening of the Renaissance.

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@rivertrees4733 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@WilliamBailey-gr7ue Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation! Much appreciated. Going to Italy for an MA in Landscape Arch in the summer.. this is wonderful prep material, thank you.

@rossking3163 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful experience that will be - congratulations! There will be so much to see and learn about. Enjoy your studies!

@dondriving 2 жыл бұрын

Great info, great presentation- keep them coming.

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@Benish_67 Жыл бұрын

It's very informative thanku.... Love from india :)

@rossking3163 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Worm1nthed1rt Жыл бұрын

Such a fantastic video. So happy to have stumbled upon your channel. Do you have any additional book recommendations to further explore historical gardens/green spaces? :)

@rossking3163 Жыл бұрын

Many thanks! First of all, there are a number of good books on Italian gardens, many beautifully illustrated. A classic is Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. More recently there’s Georgina Masson’s Italian Gardens and also Helena Attlee’s Italian Gardens: A Cultural History. Meanwhile, a real classic, Edith Wharton’s Italian Gardens, first published in 1903, has recently been published in a new edition. A bit more academic and scholarly is a collection of essays called The Italian Garden edited by John Dixon Hunt and published in Cambridge University Press’s series on Italian history and culture. Finally - Monty Don has a book on Italian gardens that’s a kind of companion to his BBC series (highly recommended). Monty also has books on Islamic gardens, American gardens and Japanese gardens. Then there's also Penelope Hobhouse's The Story of Gardening, which looks at famous gardens from around the world. I hope you can enjoy some of them, both in print and in person!

@ginacrusco234 Жыл бұрын

Great video, Ross! I especially enjoyed the concluding montage of "Italian" gardens outside of Italy. I read on Wikipedia that there is one in St Petersburg; do you know the garden to which they are referring? With many thanks.

@rossking3163 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Gina. Yes, the one in St. Petersburg - apparently very spectacular - was laid out in the early 1700s on orders of Peter the Great. It's now a shadow of its former greatness. There's a good write-up on it here: gwfreriks.medium.com/escape-to-the-secret-italian-garden-in-st-petersburg-2b16c0ab55f9

@ginacrusco234 Жыл бұрын

@@rossking3163 Wonderful! Very informative. Thank you so much for replying!

@paulotheurbanfarmer5982 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video very interesting! will there be one on Moroccan gardens?

@rossking3163 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion - I'd love to do more on gardens, maybe one on Mediterranean gardens that would encompass Islamic gardens as well?

@miketackabery7521 2 жыл бұрын

@@rossking3163 OMG Islamic gardens are an entirely different world. A unique mashup of Ancient Roman and Persian... and then you have Kashmir with water gardens that scream "le Notre saw me!" They are an entire world unto themselves, and I don't think we still understand all their subtle influences.