Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: The Renaissance in the Global Context Mohammad Gharipour

Acknowledgments

1 Prologue: Paradigm Problems; Islamic Gardens in an Expanding Field D. Fairchild Ruggles

2 Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape Christopher Pastore

3 Staging the Civilizing Elements in the Gardens of Rome and Istanbul Simone M. Kaiser

4 The Art of Garden Design in France: Ottoman Influences at the Time of the “Scandalous Alliance” Laurent Paya

5 “For Beauty, and Air, and View”: Contemplating the Wider Surroundings of Sixteenth-Century Mughal and European Gardens Jill Sinclair

6 The Gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy: A New Urban Landscape? Mohammad Gharipour

7 “Elysian Fields Such as the Poets Dreamed Of”: The Mughal Garden in the Early Stuart Mind Paula Henderson

8 Garden Encounters: Portugal and India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Cristina Castel-Branco

9 Carved Pools, Rock-Cut Elephants, Inscriptions, and Tree Columns: Mughal Landscape Art as Imperial Expression and Its Analogies to the Renaissance Garden Ebba Koch

10 Epilogue: Italian Renaissance Gardens and the Middle East; Cultural Exchange in the Longue Durée Anatole Tchikine

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

“This volume offers a fine array of historical connections between European and Islamic gardens, critiquing those geographic constructs while exploring them in rich detail. It brings innovative lines of Islamic garden research into dialogue with larger and longer-term histories of European gardens. These essays address a major need in the field of garden and landscape history, with new findings and interpretations.”

—James L. Wescoat Jr., coeditor of Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects