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Impressions de jardins. Voyageurs français en Italie (XVIIe et XIXe siècles) by Chiara SANTINI – Château de Bénouville
Garden impressions in Italy (17th and 19th centuries)
This conference will focus on a few selected Italian gardens among the best known and the most visited by French travellers (Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Villa Lante in Bagnaia, Medici Villas in Tuscany, etc…). Thanks to testimonies from travel magazines, tourist guides and iconographical documents, certain aspects of Italy’s landscaping imagination from the 17th to the 19th century will be recreated.
Chiara Santini
Chiara Santini is a research engineer at the ENSP Versailles-Marseille (National Graduate Landscaping School) where she teaches history of gardens. A doctor in history and civilisations (Paris Graduate School in Social Sciences – University of Bologna – Italy) and archivist palaeographer, she obtained a specialised diploma in geographical research methods on landscape and territory at the University of Florence, to continue her post-doctoral training at the University of Bologna and the EHESS historic research centre. Within the framework of international training and research exchanges, she obtained bursaries from the University of Paris IV – La Sorbonne, the ENS Ulm Graduate School and the ENSP – National Graduate Landscaping School. Her research and her scientific production focus essentially on the knowledge and skills involved in French garden and public promenade projects from the 17th to the 19th century. In 2007, she published “Il giardino di Versailles. Natura, artificio, modello” (The Versailles garden. Natural, artificial, modelled) which obtained the Grinzane Cavour-Giardini Botanici Hanbury international prize in the “garden and landscape history” category.