A man, a woman, a serpent, and the forbidden fruit: the story of the Garden of Eden, chronicled in Genesis 2:4b–3:20 in the Christian Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, is one of the most enduring and recognizable narratives in or out of scripture. The Catechism of the Catholic Chur…
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The illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis from northern Italy is the most important family of late fourteenth-century health handbooks. The handbooks are based on the Latin translation of an Arabic health treatise from the eleventh century, the Taqwim al-sihha by Ibn Butlan, which trea…
The Montreal Botanical Garden, a 180-acre complex comprised of over thirty outdoor and ten indoor landscapes located in the city's east-end, is the product of a Depression-era government funded Public Works project. Its founding director, preeminent botanist Frère Marie-Victorin…
Few architectures have ever been so widely adored and discussed as that of the garden. For it has served countless times as a significant paradigm of the human experience, for Eastern and Western cultures. Today most would say, it readily evokes an image of ‘innocence,’ somewher…
This dissertation describes and interprets an example of a relationship between belief, imagination, reading, writing, and the art of gardening in colonial Pennsylvania. The chapters analyze and interpret the role and influence of Francis Daniel Pastorius’ art of gardening in ea…
In this study, I examine the presence of painted representations of statuary in Roman garden paintings, through the lens of Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Previous scholarship concerning painted representations of statuary in wall painting has primarily focused on int…