The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design

by Luke Morgan

Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.

In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247558
• ISBN13: 9780812247558
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"