Product Description: Gardens in Art analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often-hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad, ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from important Western museums, subtle lines are used to point out salient details in the paintings for close examination by the reader...read more

Surveys the history and development of New York's Metropolitan Musuem of Art, and presents European and American paintings by artists from Giotto to Picasso, along with sculpture and other works from ancient times to Degas.

Looks at the historical use of the artistic symbols of plants, flowers, animals, insects, and fantastic creatures, and explains the meaning of each symbol.