"I know of no study quite like Kim Hartswick's treatment of the
Horti Sallustiani, although I hope that it will soon stand as a
model for other scholars.... The wealth of factual knowledge that
has gone into this study is immense.... This is a marvelous piece
of truly new scholarship." -- Ingrid D. Rowland, Getty Research
Institute, author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients
and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome "In several aspects this book
will be a standard for the next decades." -- Bryn Mawr Classical
Review
Pleasure gardens, or horti, offered elite citizens of ancient
Rome a retreat from the noise and grime of the city, where they
could take their leisure and even conduct business amid lovely
landscaping, architecture, and sculpture. One of the most important
and beautiful of these gardens was the horti Sallustiani,
originally developed by the Roman historian Sallust at the end of
the first century B.C. and later possessed and perfected by a
series of Roman emperors. Though now irrevocably altered by two
millennia of human history, the Gardens of Sallust endure as a
memory of beauty and as a significant archaeological site, where
fragments of sculpture and ruins of architecture are still being
discovered.
In this ambitious work, Kim Hartswick undertakes the first
comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust from Roman times to
the present, as well as its influence on generations of scholars,
intellectuals, and archaeologists. He draws from an astonishing
array of sources to reconstruct the original dimensions and
appearance of the gardens and the changes they have undergone at
specific points in history. Hartswick thoroughly discusses
thearchitectural features of the garden and analyzes their remains.
He also studies the sculptures excavated from the gardens and
discusses the subjects and uses of many outstanding examples.
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