Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Plates and Figures 7
4. Introduction: A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy 17
5. Part I. Devotional Viridescence
6. 1. The Green Places of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli 31
7. 2. Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto’s 1509 St. Jerome 49
8. 3. ‘Honesta voluptas’: the Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World 69
9. Part II. Building Green
10. 4. “The Sala delle Asse as Locus amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci’s Arboreal Imagery in Milan’s Castello Sforzesco” 89
11. 5. Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari’s Verzure 109
12. 6. Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian Villa Tradition 131
13. Part III. The Sylvan Exchange
14. 7. Titian: Sylvan Poet 155
15. 8. From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the ‘Invention’ of the Tiburtine Landscape 175
16. 9. Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird’s Nest: The Graphic Interpretations of Titian’s The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and their Successors 197
17. 10. The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet 217
18. Afterword: A Brief Journey through the Green World of Renaissance Italy 241
19. Works Cited 255
20. Index 277