Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires

Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, at Morgan State University and Director and Founding Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He has published eight other books, most recently Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: The Renaissance in the Global Context Mohammad GharipourAcknowledgments1 Prologue: Paradigm Problems; Islamic Gardens in an Expanding Field D. Fairchild Ruggles2 Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape Christopher Pastore3 Staging the Civilizing Elements in the Gardens of Rome and Istanbul Simone M. Kaiser4 The Art of Garden Design in France: Ottoman Influences at the Time of the “Scandalous Alliance” Laurent Paya5 “For Beauty, and Air, and View”: Contemplating the Wider Surroundings of Sixteenth-Century Mughal and European Gardens Jill Sinclair6 The Gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy: A New Urban Landscape? Mohammad Gharipour7 “Elysian Fields Such as the Poets Dreamed Of”: The Mughal Garden in the Early Stuart Mind Paula Henderson8 Garden Encounters: Portugal and India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Cristina Castel-Branco9 Carved Pools, Rock-Cut Elephants, Inscriptions, and Tree Columns: Mughal Landscape Art as Imperial Expression and Its Analogies to the Renaissance Garden Ebba Koch10 Epilogue: Italian Renaissance Gardens and the Middle East; Cultural Exchange in the Longue Durée Anatole TchikineNotesList of ContributorsIndex

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