Now Available–Nature as Model

Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design

Luke Morgan

312 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus.

Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3963-6 | $55.00 | £36.00

A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series

Nature as ModelSalomon de Caus was a pivotal figure in the dissemination of the design principles and motifs of the Italian Renaissance garden throughout Europe. By setting the record straight in this biography, Luke Morgan rewrites the received history of early seventeenth-century garden design.

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