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- catalog abstract "While the themes, sources, and materials of The Palladian Landscape span a range of disciplinary interests from art and architectural studies, economic, social, and environmental history, to philosophy and Renaissance humanism, Denis Cosgrove seeks to provide a geographical interpretation of a region of northern Italy in the specific period of the late Renaissance. However, he goes much further, using the thoughts, designs, and commissions of the architect Palladio as the central thread to weave a picture of a place, Venice, that is in a period of crisis as it seeks to survive a transition from a maritime power hinterland to a new land-based terraferma. As a cultural geographer, he seeks to understand how groups come to terms with and transform their material environments, and he therefore pays special attention to the intellectual forces and spiritual sensibilities that empower those groups as well as to the economic, social, and environmental constraints with which they have to contend. Although these two broad realms of human experience are often studied separately, Cosgrove brings them together in this study. He uses the leitmotif of architecture, and specifically the work of Andrea Palladio, to describe a localized transformation of the natural world into a landscape of expression of cultural meaning.Beyond this leitmotif, the work adopts an essay structure in which each chapter stands somewhat separately as a spatial narrative. It moves from the imperial city of Venice into its Italian territories, and thence from city to rural landscape to specific country estates. Having described localized transformations of urban and rural landscapes, Cosgrove then expands the scale again to consider hydrological engineering in the Venetian territories and some of the techniques involved in surveying and mapping the landscape. These return the reader to the more global view of a Venetian mentalite coming to terms with a changing geographical and historical world map.".
- catalog contributor b3713836.
- catalog coverage "Veneto (Italy) Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "Veneto (Italy) Historical geography.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references ([p. [255]-263) and index.".
- catalog description "Presenting and representing the Palladian landscape -- Renaissance Venice and the terraferma -- Vicenza: the Palladian urban landscape -- The Palladian estate -- Water and the Palladian landscape -- Measuring and picturing the land -- The Euclidian ecstasy: describing and transforming the great machine of the world -- Landscape as theatre.".
- catalog description "While the themes, sources, and materials of The Palladian Landscape span a range of disciplinary interests from art and architectural studies, economic, social, and environmental history, to philosophy and Renaissance humanism, Denis Cosgrove seeks to provide a geographical interpretation of a region of northern Italy in the specific period of the late Renaissance. However, he goes much further, using the thoughts, designs, and commissions of the architect Palladio as the central thread to weave a picture of a place, Venice, that is in a period of crisis as it seeks to survive a transition from a maritime power hinterland to a new land-based terraferma. As a cultural geographer, he seeks to understand how groups come to terms with and transform their material environments, and he therefore pays special attention to the intellectual forces and spiritual sensibilities that empower those groups as well as to the economic, social, and environmental constraints with which they have to contend. Although these two broad realms of human experience are often studied separately, Cosgrove brings them together in this study. He uses the leitmotif of architecture, and specifically the work of Andrea Palladio, to describe a localized transformation of the natural world into a landscape of expression of cultural meaning.Beyond this leitmotif, the work adopts an essay structure in which each chapter stands somewhat separately as a spatial narrative. It moves from the imperial city of Venice into its Italian territories, and thence from city to rural landscape to specific country estates. Having described localized transformations of urban and rural landscapes, Cosgrove then expands the scale again to consider hydrological engineering in the Venetian territories and some of the techniques involved in surveying and mapping the landscape. These return the reader to the more global view of a Venetian mentalite coming to terms with a changing geographical and historical world map.".
- catalog extent "xv, 270 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0718514378".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Leicester : Leicester University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Veneto.".
- catalog spatial "Veneto (Italy) Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Veneto (Italy) Historical geography.".
- catalog subject "711.4092 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Renaissance Italy Veneto.".
- catalog subject "DG975.V38 C67 1993b".
- catalog subject "Historical geography.".
- catalog subject "Human geography Italy Veneto.".
- catalog subject "Landscape assessment Italy Veneto.".
- catalog subject "Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance Italy Veneto.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Presenting and representing the Palladian landscape -- Renaissance Venice and the terraferma -- Vicenza: the Palladian urban landscape -- The Palladian estate -- Water and the Palladian landscape -- Measuring and picturing the land -- The Euclidian ecstasy: describing and transforming the great machine of the world -- Landscape as theatre.".
- catalog title "The Palladian landscape : geographical change and its cultural representation in sixteenth-century Italy / Denis Cosgrove.".
- catalog type "text".