Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-02T18:21:31.628Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Gardens of the Renaissance Painters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ray Nash*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College
Get access

Extract

The land of Italy is itself a garden.' From this opening statement of a book which is itself a garden, Mrs. Kennedy proceeds to survey the work of masters from Giotto to Belotto for their interest in lawns, sweet herbs and blossoms. A development from lectures prepared for Toledo garden clubs, the book generously shares a sensitive scholar's appreciation of details which as often as not go unnoticed in even the better known paintings of the Italian Renaissance. It is the work of a penetrating critic and historian on a sort of sabbatical, and the result is properly refreshing.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1949

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)