Des Jardins et des Livres. Architecture – Paysage It is impossible to understand

It is impossible to understand what Rome really was if we do not reconstruct this privileged leisure of the citizen

Within these cities

a collection of masterpieces by the greatest masters: Rubens

and very often of Romanity

there are still in place the Monument commemorating the defense of Saint-Quentin against the Spanish in 1557 in Saint-Quentin or the Monument to Charles Mathieu in Lourches

Des Jardins et des Livres. Architecture – Paysage It is impossible to understandThe volume is made up of 9 essays by renowned authors on the garden in books and on the book as a model for gardens and 174 notes commenting on the exhibited objects, written by the best international specialists. Des jardins & des livres aims to illustrate in a scholarly and elegant manner the centuries old dialogue between the art of gardens and the book. Equipped with a very rich iconographic apparatus (628 images), the volume presents different