Includes bibliographical references(pages 227-234) and index.
Contents
The realm of Venus -- Medieval images of the world and of gardens -- Court and domestic gardens and the garden of love -- Visions of paradise -- The enclosed garden -- Pictorial rhetoric -- Precedents and symbols -- New views--ancient ideals -- Old subjects--new ideals -- Between sense and sensuality -- Gardens of the Impressionists -- Harmony parallel to nature -- Impression and expression -- Continuation and forecast.
