Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

"In Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World, contributors explore the role of landscape in the articulation and expression of imperial identity and the mediation of relationships between the court and its many audiences in the early modern world. Nine focused studies from East andSouth Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos"--

About the author

Stephen H. Whiteman is Reader in the Art and Architecture of China, The Courtauld, University of London.

Product details

• Authors: John Dixon Hunt, Stephen H Whiteman, Stephen H. Whiteman
• Assisted by: John Dixon Hunt (Editor), Elizabeth Hyde (Editor), Stephen H Whiteman (Editor), Stephen H. Whiteman (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781512823585
• ISBN: 978-1-5128-2358-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 260 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture