Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.

As paleoecologist, Foundation Professor and Gibson Professor of Geography Scott Mensing describes it, Tuscia, Italy looks straight out of a movie set. Located on the western side of the country near ...

For Italian landscape designer Jonathan Fargion, New York City has been home for the past decade. After arriving there as a fresh graduate after his architecture studies at the Politecnico di Milano, ...

The Italian Garden at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, N.Y., will open to the public on June 18 after an eight-year, $500,000 restoration. The sparkling pool has new tiles that replicate the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The folder includes worksheets, photocopies of articles, a calendar, a planting list, historical information about the Italian community, and 28 ...

The late Italian artist’s witty, colourful photographs playfully blur the line between what’s real and what’s fake Of his Italian Landscapes series, Ghirri wrote: ‘I have viewed these places with a ...

My introduction to Italy was a two-week visit to Venice 30 years ago, and although I have returned many times since, for the most part I saw tantalisingly few gardens. Tantalising because the ones ...

The designers intended for the theatricality of the terraced view to be accentuated by the enclosed viewing amphitheater, thereby contemplating the surrounding landscape and "bringing to stage the ...