Georgian Architecture

Curl, James Stevens

ISBN 10: 0715398512 / ISBN 13: 9780715398517

Verlag: David & Charles Uk, 1993

Beschreibung

Square Tight Binding. Clean interior, from the personal library of world-renowned Architectural Historian and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation leader, Edward Chappell, with his signature.Chappell made Williamsburg, Virginia his home since 1980 when he was hired to rebuild and direct the Architectural Research Department at Colonial Williamsburg. He retired in 2016, by then holder of an endowed chair, the Shirley and Richard Roberts Director of Architectural and Archaeological Research. His education and early work experience were preparation for this career appointment and for a wide variety of special projects in Virginia, Annapolis, Charleston, Jamaica, Bermuda, Antigua, and elsewhere. Taken together, they earned his reputation as a leading preservationist and historian of early Atlantic-world architecture. Dust jacket Near Fine. A superior edition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17134

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Georgian Architecture
• Verlag: David & Charles Uk
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0715398512
• ISBN-13: 9780715398517
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

This is an illustrated guide to the architecture of the British Isles during the reign of the first four Georges (1714-1830). To many people the term "Georgian" suggests a dignified, often symmetrical facade of brick, with elegant sash-windows, a doorcase (usually with a fanlight) and a well-mannered and reticent appearance. However, there was far more to the Georgian period than that, and the book sets out to show the remarkable diversity of architecture created during the era, from the grander classicism influenced by the architecture of Italy, notably that of Palladio, to the exotic tastes for chinoiserie, rococo, Gothic and even Indian styles. The author discusses all these aspects and also sets the scene in respect of notions concerned with the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime, drawing attention especially to the importance of the picturesque.