Seminar of Landscape and Italian Garden Architecture in Central Italy
2 Weeks - 79 hours

On the green hills of central Italy, among olive trees, cypresses and secular oaks one finds historical mansions with magnificent parks. Every detail of the villa and of the garden harmoniously mingles with the landscape. These surroundings symbolize a part of the history and art of Italy, and represent the cultured and refined civilization that there lived, especially during one of the most artistically glorious periods of the Renaissance.

SYLLABUS
Through the study of History of the Art of Gardening, Landscape Analysis, and the Botany lessons, it will be possible to understand and know the italian garden architecture and its philosophy in relation with the landscape, above all with a landscape and pictorical analysis of the period between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The teaching of the Techniques and Materials will enable to deepen the knowledge, from an architectural point of view, of the characteristics of these environments, while the Painting lessons will stimulate the fantasy and the desire to reproduce fairy-like landscape.
Tle Italian Language lessons will help to learn the history and the names of places and of the artists who created the lordly mansions.

GUIDED VISITS
Guided visits will be made to historical mansions in northern Lazio: il Giardino dei mostri ( The garden of monsters ) in Bomarzo, the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, the Park of Villa Lante in Bagnaia.
More villas and parks will be visited in the Siena hinterland: the Giardino Pensile of Palazzo Piccolomini in Pienza, The Orti Leonini in San Quirico d’Orcia, the Garden of the Brolio Castle , the beautiful Giardino di Boboli in Florence, the Villa Il Trebbio and the Giardino of Villa Gamberaia in the surroundings of Florence.