Edited by Debra Hess Norris and Jennifer Jae Gutierrez

finely detailed paintings bring this book to life

construction and opening of the Getty Center

265 b/w photographs

In this three-part polemical masterpiece

Gardens in Art iris Edited by Debra Hess NorrisLucia Impelluso 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. In the first five