Chanteloup, the Renaissance garden of the Villeroys: an initiation to Humanism
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[2022]
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"The garden of the Chanteloup castle (Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon), owned by the Villeroy-Neufville family, was one of the wonders of the French Renaissance, which could compete with the great Italian gardens of the time. Perrine Galand-Willemen and Matthieu Dejean revive this exceptional artistic creation in its historical and intellectual context. The authors have studied several travel guides and a long Latin poem entitled 'Cantilupum' (Paris, 1587; 1588), which describes the meanders of the garden. 'Cantilupum' was written by Madeleine de L'Aubespine-Villeroy (1546-1596), wife of Secretary of State Nicolas IV de Neufville-Villeroy, lady of honour of Catherine de' Medici, woman of letters whom Ronsard considered his 'spiritual daughter'. The garden of Chanteloup housed an extraordinary set of topiaries (carved shrubs), automata, statues, models and fountains, which recreated Roman civilization and offered an initiatory, stoic-Christian course to the walker." (Rückseite des hinteren Banddeckels)
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Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen ; introduction by Emmanuel Lurin
Foreword / Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen -- Introduction: Antiquity in the garden / Emmanuel Lurin -- Part 1. Chanteloup and the Renaissance gardens / by Matthieu Dejean -- Part 2. Descriptions of Chanteloup / by Matthieu Dejean -- Part 3. Edition of "Cantilupum" / by Perrine Galand-Willemen (Introduction / by Perrine Galand-Willemen. Edition of "Cantilupum" / by Perrine Galand-Willemen)
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Enthaltene Quellentexte in Originalsprache mit englischer Übersetzung
Foreword / Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen -- Introduction: Antiquity in the garden / Emmanuel Lurin -- Part 1. Chanteloup and the Renaissance gardens / by Matthieu Dejean -- Part 2. Descriptions of Chanteloup / by Matthieu Dejean -- Part 3. Edition of "Cantilupum" / by Perrine Galand-Willemen (Introduction / by Perrine Galand-Willemen. Edition of "Cantilupum" / by Perrine Galand-Willemen)
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [295]-326
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Verlagsname auf Seite [3] auch: Librairie Droz
Enthaltene Quellentexte in Originalsprache mit englischer Übersetzung
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2023-07-04
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2022
L'Aubespine, Madeleine de (1546-1596)