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Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
David R. Coffin
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Description for Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
Paperback. Covers the works of David Coffin who was a leading authority on Renaissance architecture. This work features essays that span the range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Editor(s): Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer. Num Pages: 320 pages, 182 duotones. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1685.
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of ... Read more
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin's approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136776
SKU
V9780691136776
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About David R. Coffin
David R. Coffin (1918-2003) was the Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University. His books include "The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome" and "The English Garden" (both Princeton).
Reviews for Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens
"This compendium of scholarly essays charts admirably David Coffin's remarkable and enviable ability to express simply, clearly and authoritatively the results of a lifetime's scrupulous and disciplined research."
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Burlington Magazine "Each essay, almost every paragraph, had the effect of inspiring the reader to follow it up with more research of their own."
Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review "The volume stands ... Read more
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Burlington Magazine "Each essay, almost every paragraph, had the effect of inspiring the reader to follow it up with more research of their own."
Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review "The volume stands ... Read more