Sir John Vanbrugh: storyteller in stone / Vaughan Hart

Hart, Vaughan

Verlag: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

Beschreibung

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 288 pages: illustrations (some color), maps; 29 cm. Contents: Preface. Tory mobs and ignorant priests -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. "Without thought or lecture" : the early influences on Vanbrugh -- Ch. 2. "The historicall argument" : the Order of the Garter and Vanbrugh's 'castle air' -- Ch. 3. "Agreable objects" : Vanbrugh on architecture, landscape, and mood -- Ch. 4. "The Reverend look of a temple" -- Ch. 5. "Wonder enough in the story" : Castle Howard and Blenheim -- Ch. 6. Something of the castle air" : characters in stone at Kimbolton and Seaton Delaval -- Ch. 7. "Pleas'd to storm my castle" : Englishmen's homes and castles at Kings Weston, Eastbury, Grimsthorpe, and Stowe -- Ch. 8. "A sort of child of my owne" : autobiography in stone at 'Goose-Pie' House, Greenwich and Chargate -- Conclusion. Subjects:Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726 Criticism and interpretation.Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726. Architecture, Domestic England. Architecture England History 18th century. 2 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 341905

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Titel: Sir John Vanbrugh: storyteller in stone / ...

Verlag: New Haven: Yale University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st Edition.