Contents

pp 5-6

List of Plates and Figures

pp 7-16

Introduction: A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy

pp 17-28

Part I - Devotional Viridescence

pp 29-30

1 - The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli

pp 31-48

2 - Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome

pp 49-68

3 - ‘Honesta voluptas’: the Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World

pp 69-86

Part II - Building Green

pp 87-88

4 - “The Sala delle Asse as Locus amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Arboreal Imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco”

pp 89-108

5 - Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari's Verzure

pp 109-130

6 - Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian Villa Tradition

pp 131-152

Part III - The Sylvan Exchange

pp 153-154

7 - Titian: Sylvan Poet

pp 155-174

8 - From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the ‘Invention’ of the Tiburtine Landscape

pp 175-196

9 - Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors

pp 197-216

10 - The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet

pp 217-240

Afterword: A Brief Journey through the Green World of Renaissance Italy

pp 241-254

Works Cited

pp 255-276

Index

pp 277-286