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LARP 535-401 / THEORY I






NORTHERN RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE

*Denotes required readings provided in xerox format and on reserve
(R) Denotes optional readings placed on reserve in the Fine Arts Library

*(R) Leonard N. Amico, Bernard Palissy: In Search of Earthly Paradise (New York: Flammarion, 1996), "The Grottoes", pp. 46-81

Adolf von Oechelhaeuser, Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberg: Dr. Johannes Horning, 1956)

Salomon de Caus, Hortus Palatinus (1620), facsimile edition (Worms: Wernersche, 1986)

*(R) Gavin Keeney, "Dreaming Prague Gardens" (Manuscript, 1999)

*(R) Lorraine Daston & Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 (New York: Zone, 1998), "Marvelous Particulars" (pp. 135-172), "The Enlightenment & the Anti-Marvelous" (pp. 329-363)

(R) Rene Descartes, Meditations & Other Metaphysical Writings, trans. Desmond Clark (New York: Penguin, 1998), "Meditations 1-6", pp. 18-70

*(R) Allen S. Weiss, Unnatural Horizons: Paradox & Contradiction in Landscape Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), "Dematerialization & Iconoclasm: Baroque Azure", pp. 45-63

__________, Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden & 17th Century Metaphysics (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995)

(R) F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre Le Nostre (Nashville: Vanderbilt, 1980), "Versailles", pp. 59-151

(R) Robert W. Berger, In the Garden of the Sun King: Studies on the Park of Versailles under Louis XIV (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1985)

Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)

(R) Raymond Klibansky , Erwin Panofsky & Fritz Saxl, Saturn & Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion & Art (London: Nelson, 1964)

(R) Rudolf Wittkower, Born under Saturn (London: Weidenfeld, 1963)

John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost (1667)

H. A. Meek, Guarino Guarini & His Architecture [Turin] (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)

*(R) Henry A. Millon (ed.), The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 (New York: Rizzoli, 1999), Paolo Portoghesi, "Birth of the Baroque in Rome", pp. 33-55

(R) Thierry Mariage, The World of Andre Le Notre (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1999)

Michael Kenna, Le Notre's Gardens (Santa Monica, CA: Ram Publications, 1997), "Lasting Landscapes: Michael Kenna, Andre le Notre, and Grand-Siecle Gardens" (Eric Haskell), pp. 8-11

*(R) Simon Schama, Landscape & Memory (New York: Vintage, 1995), "Water: Streams of Consciousness", pp. 245-306

(R) Heinrich Wolfflin, Renaissance and Baroque (1888), trans. Kathrin Simon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966)

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