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Title The nature of authority : villa culture, landscape, and representation in eighteenth-century Lombardy / Dianne Harris.

LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 General Collection  NA7594 .H37 2003    AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 239 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Series Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 1
Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 1.
Note Series statement from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Contents Landscape and enlightened absolutism -- Landscape and representation -- The printed view and Marc' Antonio Dal Re's Ville di delizie -- Mapping the landscape of reform -- Displaying the social landscape -- Villas of delight? -- The architecture of production and display -- Environmental absolutism: The villas Clerici -- Gardens in eighteenth-century Lombardy -- Gardens and social distinction.
Local Note Donated by Robert P. Maccubbin (2006/07)
Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Lombardy.
Architecture -- Italy -- Lombardy -- 18th century.
Lombardy (Italy) -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Local Subj. Robert P. Maccubbin Collection.
Standard # 0271022167 cloth alkaline paper
9780271022161 cloth alkaline paper

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