Perspectives on Garden Histories
- ISBN-10
- 088402265X
- ISBN-13
- 9780884022657
- Category
- Gardens
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Author
- Michel Conan
Description
Comprising ten papers which critically examine the field of garden history, presented at the twenty-first Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good
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