- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns; 1 edition (22 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 160606049X
- ISBN-13: 978-1606060490
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 140,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This sumptuously illustrated volume provides an illuminating and in-depth exploration of stunning gardens at the Getty Villa. The first part of the book looks at the design, planting, and uses of ancient Roman gardens and how they inspired J. Paul Getty to create just such a garden in California. The second part is a guide to the plants in each of the five gardens at the Villa, in which noted garden historian Patrick Bowe introduces each of the gardens, and describes the underlying concepts and the relationship to the ancient Roman models. He also documents how the gardens have changed in light of new knowledge emerging from excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. This volume also includes informative descriptions of the growing habits, medicinal, culinary, and ritual uses for many of the plants.
About the Author
Patrick Bowe is a respected garden historian and author. Michael D. DeHart has been supervisor for Grounds and Gardens at the J. Paul Getty Trust for the last twenty years.
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This tiny, apparently modest Book offers actually a GORGEUS Plenty of high inspired Photographs taken on the Getty Villa and sorrounding Gardens in a for an european reader rather unexpected place: Malibu (California) and allows an outstanding Insight in the botanic, architectonical and artistic Treausuries that this true 1/1 scala Reconstruction of the Herculaneum's Villa dei Papiri bears. The short commentaries offered in the Introduction-Chapter about History and significance of this roman "cappriccio" of an american Oil-Billionaire transformed now in a Museum an research center on Greek and Roman Antiquity at the best world-quality among his partners here in old Europe are well-balanced and instructive, but the commentaries attached to all the single, carefull pictured Trees, Flowers etc. etc. are simply amazing: they bear the very very best of this troughout fine and sophisticated little Book, that allows us to travel in Time inmmediatly to the Splendor of imperial Rome. I give this Book absolutely a privileged place on my Library!
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