Lord Burlington

Author : Toby Barnard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852850944
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Burlington written by Toby Barnard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Burlington's fame, surprisingly little has been written about him. Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life presents a modern reassessment of his career, while setting him in a broader context than has usually been the case, to reflect both his interests outside architecture and to present his character in the round. Architecture is given pride of place, but his other interests, in land-owning, politics and literature, are also examined, throwing much new light on an exceptionally significant and attractive figure.

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059830
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palladian Revival written by John Harris and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.

Author : Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield
Publisher : London : G. Bell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800 written by Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield and published by London : G. Bell. This book was released on 1904 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle DiMeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673174X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Ranelagh written by Michelle DiMeo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness of the European correspondence network now known as the Hartlib circle—but neither portrait captures the depth of her intellect or the range of her knowledge and influence. Philosophers, mathematicians, politicians, and religious authorities sought her opinion on everything from decimalizing the currency to producing Hebrew grammars. She practiced medicine alongside distinguished male physicians, treating some of the most elite patients in London. Her medical recipes, political commentaries, and testimony concerning the philosophers’ stone gained international circulation. She was an important influence on Boyle and a formidable thinker in her own right. Drawing from a wealth of new archival sources, Michelle DiMeo fills out Lady Ranelagh’s legacy in the context of a historically sensitive and nuanced interpretation of gender, science, and religion. The book re-creates the intellectual life of one of the most respected and influential women in seventeenth-century Europe, revealing how she managed to gain the admiration of diverse contemporaries, effect social change, and shape contemporary science.

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London, Past and Present written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.

Author : Kate Retford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337300
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Georgian London Town House written by Kate Retford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Author : Marian Moffett
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856693714
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World History of Architecture written by Marian Moffett and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fraser's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262580922
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius of the Place written by John Dixon Hunt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988-09-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteenth century when its distinctive feature emerged, to the heyday of the landscape garden under "Capability" Brown and the reactions to his pure formalism under Repton and Loudon in the 1800s. This edition contains a new introduction and bibliography covering the many developments in garden history during the last dozen years.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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