Landscape and the visual hermeneutics of place, 1500-1700

Abstract

"This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation or, better, for the application of a method or principle of interpretation"--

Contents

Introduction : the Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes -- Constructions of Identity : Landscapes and the Description of Reality -- Constructions of Artificial Landscapes : Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins -- Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes.