Author: MAUREEN CARROLL
Title: Earthly Paradises
Description: British Museum Press, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 144. The desire to create paradises on earth from earth is an ancient one. Utilitarian and ornamental gardens, orchards and parks, sacred and cemetery gardens were cultivated throughout the ancient world. The understanding of them has grown over the past thirty years through the study of ancient literary and artistic sources. However, the value of archaeology in this area is only now being realised, especially where there are no surviving written sources about particular gardens, or for more modest ones which were never recorded. Evidence from the 2nd millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium, from the Roman Empire and its provinces, Egypt, Greece, the Near East and beyond is here gathered together. Besides written evidence, the rare physical remains of ancient planting and excavation of actual garden features such as beds, trenches and garden furniture demonstrate the size and style of gardens in antiquity. The book also includes informative reconstructions and plans and a list of gardens to visit. ISBN: 9780714127682. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780714127682
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Title: Earthly Paradises
Description: British Museum Press, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 144. The desire to create paradises on earth from earth is an ancient one. Utilitarian and ornamental gardens, orchards and parks, sacred and cemetery gardens were cultivated throughout the ancient world. The understanding of them has grown over the past thirty years through the study of ancient literary and artistic sources. However, the value of archaeology in this area is only now being realised, especially where there are no surviving written sources about particular gardens, or for more modest ones which were never recorded. Evidence from the 2nd millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium, from the Roman Empire and its provinces, Egypt, Greece, the Near East and beyond is here gathered together. Besides written evidence, the rare physical remains of ancient planting and excavation of actual garden features such as beds, trenches and garden furniture demonstrate the size and style of gardens in antiquity. The book also includes informative reconstructions and plans and a list of gardens to visit. ISBN: 9780714127682. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780714127682
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2042405
- Book number: 2042405
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