For the series “In the shade of gardens, in Italy and abroad”: A lecture by Dr. Ada V. Segre, Technion and WIZO School of Design.
This lecture presents two gardens facing each other in the Tuscan country side between Lucca and Pistoia: Villa Garzoni (17th-18th century) and Pinocchio’s garden (20th century).
In addition to their physical proximity, the two gardens are ideally connected by the figure of Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi), author of Pinocchio (the book) and son of a farmer at Villa Garzoni.
The abundance of waters from the nearby Pescia river triggered the creation of both gardens. Gushing waters rush down in the baroque garden of Villa Garzoni. As well, water plays a primary role also in Pinocchio’s garden, where the world wide loved story of the puppet turned into a boy is told along a path marked by its most significant episodes.
Event held in Hebrew, with slides in Italian.
Refreshments from 18:15.
Ada V. Segre, garden historian and conservator, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the University of Bologna (Italy) and at the University of York (UK).
She was involved in the restoration of the Secret Gardens at Villa Borghese in Rome, the garden of the Doria-Pamphilj Palace in Genua, the Este Delizia of the Verginese near Ferrara, the garden of Poggio Torselli in S. Casciano near Florence and the Garzoni Garden in Collodi. She taught at the University of Bologna, at the New York University in Florence, and is currently teaching at the Technion and at the Wizo College in Haifa. She published numerous papers and two books on the history of landscape architecture. At present she is the historic garden conservation consultant for the City of Tel Aviv and for the Weizmann Institute of Tel Aviv.
Wednesday, March 20th 2018, at 18:30
Italian Cultural Institute, Rehov Meir Rutberg 12, Haifa
Refreshments from 18:15.
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