Pietro Piffetti: E gli ebanisti a Torino 1670-1838 (Archivi di arti decorative) (Italian Edition)

Ferraris, Giancarlo

Umberto Allemandi

Firenze (Guide di architettura) (Italian Edition)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

The Artist and the book in twentieth-century Italy

History

JENTSCH, Ralph. With Contributions by Muella Bentivaglo, Luciano Caruso, Lucia Chimirri, Gabriella Di Cagno and Others

Europe

Highlights the artist's first visit to America and includes work he rendered during his stay in New York.

De Chirico And America

Dell'Arco, Maurizio Fagiolo

Individual Artists

Completely new: a translation of the Italian book Il Libro delle Peonie in which, for the first time in the West, 152 varieties of tree peonies are described and illustrated In the Far East the tree peony is the flower at the head of the floral hierarchy, and is an important part of Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage: it is portrayed with very great frequency in lacquers, paintings, textiles, and porcelain as well as in poetry. In the wild it is found only in the mountains of China that border Tibet, India and Burma. This is the first time that photographs and descriptions of tree peonies found by the author growing wild on the Chinese mountains have been published. Following in the steps of the great plant hunters of the Victorian era, he found tree peonies in their natural habitat where they had not been seen by westerners since the beginning of the twentieth century. The tree peony is difficult to propagate but, once established, it is practically indestructible, with flowers among the most spectacular that nature has given us. Greatly fashionable at the end of the nineteenth century, it was defined as the noblest of plants. 128 pages, 242 colour photographs

The Book of Tree Peonies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Osti, Gian Lupo

Gardening & Landscape Design

This is a collection of Futurist and metaphysical works including some of De Chirico's most  interesting pieces.  This is the official guide  to the London museum of one of the most important collections of Italian 20th century art outside  Italy.

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Velani, Livia

History & Criticism

Each volume includes information about public transportation and maps denoting each city's monuments from the Roman era to developments of this decade. The reader is introduced to contemporary culture restoration work and the relationship of the buildings to their surrounding areas.

Florence - Architectural Guide

Travel

Antique Collectors' Club

Architectural Guides: Turin. Rediscovering Italian

The Garden of Ninfa was lovingly created around a ruined mediaeval town by the Anglo-Italian family of Caetani. The town was abandoned in 1500 as result of plague and its resurrection began to take place at the end of the nineteenth century and has continued up until the present day. The gardens are built around the remains of the original buildings. It is a magical, peaceful place, one hour from the bustle of modern day Rome. Access is restricted as the garden is a natural reserve. The Garden of Ninfa traces the history of the garden and the family who created it using archive photographs. New colour photographs have been especially taken by Marella Agnelli and they re-create, in so far as it is possible, the magical atmosphere of these lush gardens amongst the ruins of the original village. 884220854X

The Garden of Ninfa

Marella Caracciolo

Giuppi Pietromarchi

A tour of the museum that houses works donated by Gian Poldi Pezzoli.

The Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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