The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9780747805229 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2001 |
| Author: | Hazelle Jackson |
| Publisher: | Shire Publications an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 40 pages |
| Series: | A Shire Album |
| Genres: |
History |