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August 14, 2002
Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, eds. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 448 pp.; 167 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0521782252)
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Following a symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, in 1995 that honored Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, director of landscape studies from 1972 to 1988, Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris commissioned an anthology of articles that present diverse methodological approaches to the history of the villa and the garden in France and Italy from ca. 1550 to 1800. Each of the eleven articles in Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France offers a...