The Venetian interest in Moorish Spain and its impact on sixteenth-century Italian gardens
Christopher Pastore, from University of Pennsylvania’s College of Liberal Arts, presents a series of Venetian encounters with the Islamic landscape, its built environment, and a number of magnificent gardens that captivated Venetian travellers and members of the elite class of villa owners. It will then examine how interest in these gardens subsequently influenced Renaissance landscape designs and perhaps also modified the provisional rational underpinning a new approach to the agricultural territories of the early modern Veneto. Time: 18:00 BST
