An overview of cultural and artistic history, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, see through the evolution of the garden, with interesting elements for a reconstruction of the relationship between man and nature across the centuries.
The complex theme of the history of gardens has strong ties to art and architecture, and offers an interesting overview of the relations between man and nature. In chronological order, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era, this volume reconstructs the evolution of the concept of the garden across the centuries, underlining how the various ways of thinking about and organizing green spaces reflect the cultural and artistic trends of each period. From the Arabian influences in medieval gardens to the harmony between nature and architecture in the Italian gardens of the Renaissance; from the sumptuous baroque gardens to the evocations of Arcadia in the 1700s, all the way to the “bourgeois” garden of the 20th century.