Italian Garden: Restoring a Renaissance Garden in Tuscany
The Italian Garden is part restoration story, part vicarious travel tale and a completely facinating insight into the Palazzo Vaj garden. A chance discovery over fifty years ago of a series of fifteenth century frescoes hidden in a wall cavity, turned into a dream of transforming an unused car...
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The Italian Garden is part restoration story, part vicarious travel tale and a completely facinating insight into the Palazzo Vaj garden. A chance discovery over fifty years ago of a series of fifteenth century frescoes hidden in a wall cavity, turned into a dream of transforming an unused car park into a lush green oasis in the heart of modern day Prato.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780500501016
Publish date: 2018-04
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
In 1967, while doing some shoring up of the outer walls surrounding the Pallazo Vaj, gorgeous frescoes from the 1400's were found hidden inside the wall (one assumes it was a double wall sort of thing). This became the later inspiration for Monash University's restoration of the Pallazo's car park,...
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