Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice by Jodi Cranston - 9780271082028

Name: Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice by Jodi Cranston - 9780271082028
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press

Pennsylvania State University Press

Green Worlds of Renaissance VeniceAuthor(s): Jodi Cranston\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271082028, 978-0271082028\nSynopsis\nFrom celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed.\n\nDrawing on a variety of primary sources ranging from visual art to literary texts, performances, and urban plans, Jodi Cranston shows how Venetians lived the pastoral in urban Venice. She describes how they created green spaces and enacted pastoral situations through poetic conversations and theatrical performances in lagoon gardens; discusses the island utopias found, invented, and mapped in distant seas; and explores the visual art that facilitated the exp.