Cultivating the Renaissance

A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas

Katie Campbell

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Routledge
31 December 2021

Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Botany & plant sciences; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.

From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the Medici family dominated European life. While promoting both arts and sciences, the Medici helped create a new style of architecture, present a new idea of villa life and promote the novel idea of living in harmony with nature. Used variously for pleasure and sports, scholarly and amorous liaisons, commercial enterprise and botanical experimentation, their villas both expressed and influenced contemporary ideas on politics, philosophy, art and design. Each patron's public interests and private passions, as well as the architects, artists and philosophers they employed, are examined. Through a chronological approach, this book reveals how the villas were used, their reception by contemporary commentators, their legacy and their current state five centuries after they were first built.

Lavishly illustrated, Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture, horticulture, landscape history, philosophy, art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy.

By: Katie Campbell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.080kg
ISBN: 9781032062129
ISBN 10: 1032062126
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 31 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katie Campbell is a writer and garden historian. She leads art and garden tours, lectures widely and has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham universities. Her most recent book, British Gardens in Time, accompanied the BBC television series. Earlier books include Paradise of Exiles, Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design and Policies and Pleasances.