Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
Contents:
1. Presenting and representing the Pallaian landscape -- 2. Renaissance Venice and the terraferma -- 3. Vicenza: the Palladian urban landscape -- 4. Villa: the Palladian rural landscape -- 5. The Palladian estate -- 6. Water and the Palladian landscape -- 7. Measuring and picturing the land -- 8. The Euclidian ecstasy: describing and transforming the great machine of the world -- 9. Landscape as theatre.
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