Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires : Encounters and Confluences.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
COVER front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: The Renaissance in the Global Context -- Notes to Preface -- Chapter 1: Prologue: Paradigm Problems: Islamic Gardens in an Expanding Field -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Staging the Civilizing Elements in the Gardens of Rome and Istanbul -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: The Art of Garden Design in France: Ottoman Influences at the Time of the "Scandalous Alliance"? -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: "For Beauty, and Air, and View": Contemplating the Wider Surroundings of Sixteenth-Century Mughal and European Gardens -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: The Gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy: A New Urban Landscape? -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: "Elysian Fields Such as the Poets Dreamed Of": The Mughal Garden in the Early Stuart Mind -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Garden Encounters: Portugal and India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: Carved Pools, Rock-Cut Elephants, Inscriptions, and Tree Columns: Mughal Landscape Art as Imperial Expression and Its Analogies to the Renaissance Garden -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10: Epilogue: Italian Renaissance Gardens and the Middle East: Cultural Exchanges in the Longue Duree -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Contributors -- Index.
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