and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes

finely detailed paintings bring this book to life

Written for the nonspecialist and lavishly illustrated with objects from the collections of the J

265 b/w photographs

In this three-part polemical masterpiece

Gardens in Art iris and astonished viewers with hisLucia Impelluso Gardens in Art analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from important Western museums, subtle lines are used to point out salient details in the paintings for close examination by the reader. In the first five