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Gardens, Roman --- Gardens, Greek --- Gardens --- Gardens

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"This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and 'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the Roman garden"--

Gardens, Roman --- Gardens --- Gardens in literature --- Latin literature. --- Social aspects

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Art, Roman --- Gardens, Roman --- Painting, Roman --- Sculpture, Roman --- Architecture, Roman --- Egyptian influences

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Gardens, Roman. --- Jardins romains --- Rome --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome --- Rome (Italie) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Antiquités

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Retrouver les traces des jardins antiques s'avère une entreprise délicate. Certes, les philologues disposent de nombreuses sources, en grec et en latin, qui en livrent une première impression. Les archéologues, toutefois, éprouvent souvent des difficultés à mettre en évidence leurs vestiges. En partant à la recherche des jardins antiques, il faut être conscient de leurs fonctions multiples : potager, jardin d'agrément, verger, vigne, parc, bois sacré, jardin funéraire, etc. De plus, la création et l'utilisation des ... Lire la suite jardins varient selon les différentes cultures antiques (grecque, romaine ou celtique). Des membres de l'Institut d'Archéologie et des Sciences de l'Antiquité de l'Université de Lausanne proposent une approche pluridisciplinaire qui révèle l'état de nos connaissances sur les jardins antiques.

Gardens --- Gardens, Roman --- Jardins --- Jardins romains --- History. --- Histoire --- Greece --- Gaul --- Rome --- Grèce --- Gaule --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Archéologie des jardins --- Antiquité