Ines Unetič

This volume brings together essays from different fields of the humanities and social sciences that offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. The studies reach far beyond the geographical regions where Europe and the Middle East have met and interacted throughout their long histories, such as the eastern Mediterranean, the south Caucasus, and the Balkans. Their focus is on the variety of “contact zones” of the two worlds with specific artistic creativity, characterized by dynamic processes of movement and interchange between various cultural entities in the broadest and most complex sense of the word. The studies shed new light on diverse phenomena of the “in-between” or “liminal” spaces in art and culture, with special interest in artists and art works from ancient to modern times, from fine arts and architecture to music and video.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Enlightenment in Carniola influenced the development of interest in scientific approaches to designing nature, which were adopted to a greater or lesser extent by many Carniolan intellectuals. In Carniola, this circle of intellectuals gathered around patron Baron Sigmund Zois, who did not remain indifferent to this new attitude towards nature, gardens and flora. In fact, Zois arranged parks in Ljubljana with his brother, a botanist, and opened them to the public. In addition, he corresponded about new plant species with Baron Josef von Erberg, who was also a garden art enthusiast. New plants were an essential component of the new garden style which was then becoming increasingly popular throughout Europe. It could be said that these plants represented new exotic richness of gardens which became an object of great interest to many noblemen and clergymen. Thus, Barons Zois and von Erberg were only two among many noblemen engaged in one way or another in botany, foreign plant species or the new garden style in Carniola around 1800.

IZVLEČEK V prispevku sta predstavljena dva primera vrtnega oblikovanja v bližini Cervignana – okrasna vrtova pri vilah Bolani in Saziletto. Shema njunih vrtnih zasnov je vidna na načrtu iz sredine 18. stoletja, ki je hranjen v Arhivu Slove-nije v Ljubljani. Narejena je tudi širša analiza beneških vrtov, ki predstavljajo osnovo okrasnim vrtovom Furlanije, ter primerjalna analiza (vzhodno) furlanskih vrtov in vrtov Avstrijskega cesarstva. Prek teh analiz je bil podan približen oris imenovanih dveh vrtov na mejnem ozemlju med Beneško republiko in Avstrijskim cesarstvom. Ključne besede: okrasni vrtovi, vrtna umetnost, mejno ozemlje, Beneška republika, Avstrijsko cesarstvo, 18. stoletje, vila Bolani, vila Saziletto, Furlanija, Gradiška I GIARDINI ORNAMENTALI DI VILLA BOLANI E VILLA SAZILETTO VICINO A CERVIGNANO (FRIULI) NELLA METÀ DEL SETTECENTO SINTESI Il contributo presenta due esempi di arredamento di giardino nelle vicinanze di Cervignano – i giardini orna-mentali di Villa Bolani e Villa Saziletto. Lo schema del disegno di ciascuno dei due giardini è visibile in una pianta della metà del XVIII secolo, conservata nell'Archivio della Repubblica di Slovenia a Lubiana. Il contributo inoltre comprende un'analisi più ampia dei giardini veneziani, che fungono da base per i giardini ornamentali del Friuli, e un'analisi comparativa tra i giardini friulani (orientali) e quelli dell'impero austriaco. Mediante queste analisi viene fornita una descrizione approssimativa dei due giardini menzionati sul territorio di confine tra la Repubblica di Ve-nezia e l'Impero austriaco.