| ISBN |
9004107231 |
| Title |
Gardens in the time of the great Muslim empires : theory and design / edited by Attilio Petruccioli |
| Publisher |
Leiden : E.J. Brill (Firm), 1997 |
| Physical desc. |
ix, 202 p. ; ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture 7 |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 63, Fig. 9 (T 413, fol. 23a); p. 69, Fig. 18 (T 439, fol. 9) |
| Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. |
| Contents |
The social significance of transforming the landscape at the Villa Borghese, 1606-30: territory, trees, and agriculture in the design of the first Roman baroque park / Mirka Beneš. -- The suburban landscape of sixteenth-century Istanbul as a mirror of classical Ottoman garden culture / Gülru Necipoğlu. -- The royal gardens of the Safavid period: types and models / Mahvash Alemi. -- Some observations on 'garden' and its meanings in the property transactions of the Juybari family in Bukhara, 1544-77 / R.D. McChesney. -- Agriculture and the Timurid chahārbāgh: the evidence from a medieval Persian agricultural manual / Maria Eva Subtelny. -- The sweet-smelling notebook: an unpublished Mughal source on garden design / Gauvin Bailey. -- The Mughal waterfront garden / Ebba Koch. -- Garden types in Mughal Lahore according to early-seventeenth-century written and visual sources / Abdul Rehman. -- Humayun's tomb and garden: typologies and visual order / D. Fairchild Ruggles. -- Mughal gardens and geographic sciences, then and now / James L. Wescoat, Jr.. |
| Person as subject |
Humayun -- Emperor of Hindustan -- 1508-1556 -- Tomb |
| Corporate name |
Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy) |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 413 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439 |
| Gardens, Islamic -- Islamic Empire -- History -- Congresses |
| Gardens, Turkish |
| Gardens, Persian |
| Gardens -- Design |
| Gardens, Mogul |
| Gardens, Mogul -- Pakistan -- Lahore |
| Architecture, Islamic |
| Added name(s) |
Petruccioli, Attilio 1945- ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture |
