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.
The Orsini park in Pitigliano can be considered a Sacred Wood of Bomarzo ante litteram.
Today it appears as a wood on a slope, hiding statues carved in the tuff rocks, which have been only partially retrieved. Almost unknown, this wood/garden is important because it shows the interpenetration between Etruscan art and a strand of the sixteenth century art of gardens, a connection which might lead to a deeper understanding of the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo.
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.
Tuesday, January 23rd 2018, at 18:30
Italian Cultural Institute, Rehov Meir Rutberg 12, Haifa
Refreshments from 18:15.
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