The Medici Gardens of Tuscany

The Florentine Renaissance was characterized by a rediscovery of the buildings, statues and texts of the Ancient Romans, as well as by a reconfiguration of visual space through such things as proportion and linear perspective. If they were crucial to architecture and painting, these developments likewise had a dramatic impact on the philosophy, design and function of the garden in fifteenth-century Florence. Ross will examine the Tuscan gardens of the Medici family in order to explore the merging of a beautiful landscape with philosophy and art.