Sur la Terre comme au Ciel: Jardins d'Occident a la fin du Moyen Age
Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2002. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps, 256pp, 109 color and BW plates, hundreds of figures. VG, light wear to edges and corners. Item #127483
Text is in French. The gardens of the Middle Ages remain to be discovered; for the first time in France, an exhibition offers an overview on the subject, comparing symbolic representations and objects of everyday life. The various facets of medieval garden are addressed in turn: the Garden of Eden and the garden of the Song of Songs are the foundations of a religious symbolism when the garden is the image of the soul, the church or the Virgin. Literature transforms the garden into a garden of love which comes to realize the ideal of courtly life. Under this influence develop a true love of gardens and a growing interest in the shop. Tapestries, engravings, paintings and more than fifty precious manuscripts, set against archaeological objects, resurrect the gardens which are reconciled poetry, mysticism and botany.
Price: $75.00