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Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from important Western museums, subtle lines are used to point out salient details in the paintings for close examination by the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first five chapters, the author examines the main types of gardens throughout history: from the humble medieval enclosure as a site for sacred or secular devotions, to the garden as a magnificent celebration of the power of popes and kings, to the nineteenth century's great public parks. 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The goal of this book is to provide contemporary readers and museum visitors with the tools to read the hidden meanings in works of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is thematically divided into four sections featuring symbols related to time, man, space (earth and sky), and allegories or moral lessons. Readers will learn, for instance, that night, the primordial mother of the cosmos, was often portrayed in ancient art as a woman wrapped in a black veil, whereas day or noon was often represented in Renaissance art as a strong, virile man, evoking the full manifestation of the sun's energy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach entry in the book contains a main reference image in which details of the symbol or allegory being analyzed are called out for discussion. In the margin, for quick access by the reader, is a summary of the essential characteristics of the symbol in question, the derivation of its name, and the religious tradition from which it springs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatilde Battistini is an art critic and coauthor, with Stefano Zuffi, of \u003ci\u003ePicasso: L'opera di un genio\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Natura Morta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Guide to Imagery series\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/collections\/guide-to-imagery-series\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAdditional titles in this series.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n384 pages\u003cbr\u003e5 1\/4 x 7 3\/4 inches\u003cbr\u003e 400 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-818-1\u003cbr\u003epaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. 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Although he considered the painting more a study than a finished picture, his brother Theo submitted it to the \u003ci\u003eSalon des Indépendants\u003c\/i\u003e in September 1889. Its energy and theme―the regenerative powers of the earth―express the artist's deeply held belief in the divinity of art and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book fills a gap in Van Gogh scholarship with an in-depth study of \u003ci\u003eIrises\u003c\/i\u003e―among the J. Paul Getty Museum's most famous paintings―placed in the context of his glorious flower and garden paintings. Full-color reproductions include not only \u003ci\u003eIrises\u003c\/i\u003e but also a panoply of nature paintings by Van Gogh and the artists who inspired him, such as Albrecht Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Paul Gauguin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Helvey is an independent scholar living in Ithaca, New York. She was assistant curator in the Department of Paintings at the J. 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The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I, commissioned master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, at Rudolf's behest, miniaturist Joris Hoefnagel filled the spaces on each manuscript page with insects, fruits, flowers, and other botanical images. The combination of word and illustration is rare and, on its tiny scale, constitutes one of the marvels of the Central European Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature Illuminated\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces forty-one pages from the original codex. Those who love and collect beautiful books will be endlessly fascinated by Hoefnagel's imagery and invention. 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This immensely important Andean manuscript is here made available in facsimile, its beautifully calligraphed text reproduced in halftone and its thirty-eight hand-colored images―mostly portraits of Inca kings and queens―in color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoxed with the facsimile is a set of essays that discusses not only the manuscript's physical components―quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments―but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essay volume—comprising contributions by Rolena Adorno, Barbara Anderson, Ivan Boserup, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Juan M. Ossio, Elena Phipps, Karen Trentelman, and Nancy Turner―is also sold separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas B. F. 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