Stourhead

Author : Dudley Dodd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788543610
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stourhead written by Dudley Dodd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brings both house and garden vividly to life... A magnificent achievement' Gardens Illustrated 'A finely crafted work... it is an important record of the history of one of the country's most splendid estates' The English Garden The Palladian house of Stourhead, in Wiltshire, occupies a plateau above the confluence of three valleys. When you cross the south lawn and descend the tree-hung slopes, you glimpse a lake adorned with classical temples. Continue and you will find an allegorical grotto; a gothick hideaway; a Pantheon of demi-gods and, on high, a deserted temple to Apollo. To the west Alfred's Tower commands views over three counties, a gaunt landmark to English monarchy and patriotism. This is how in Georgian times Henry Hoare – known as Henry the Magnificent – would have explored the garden he designed. Generations of the Hoare family, bankers who combined service with enlightened patronage and philanthropy, have developed and cultivated the garden at Stourhead, and for many its breathtaking vistas are paradise. Dudley Dodd charts the owners of Stourhead and the history of the landscape, house and art collection. He describes how flights of folly, individual flair, taste and careful stewardship have nurtured a national treasure, which is among the finest English landscape gardens and, since 1946, a jewel of The National Trust. The stunning new pictures by the renowned photographer Marianne Majerus provide an up to date record of this enduring Elysium.

Author : Sir Richard Colt Hoare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts written by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bowyer NICHOLS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, ... Wilts. To which are added, an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, a Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings, and a Description of the Mansion, by the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. (Memoir of Sr. R. C. Hoare, ... partly written by himself.-Chronological list of the works of Sir R. C. Hoare.). written by John Bowyer NICHOLS and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521584906
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England written by Philip Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.

Author : Stephanie Ross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226728070
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Gardens Mean written by Stephanie Ross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting. What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays on the pleasures of imagination, the book’s opening chapter surveys more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art of gardening is now a dead one. (ed.)

Author : Trinity House (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consolidated Tables of Duties for Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, in Great Britain and Ireland, Chargeable on Coasting Vessels written by Trinity House (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles W. Moore
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631532
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Gardens written by Charles W. Moore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stourhead written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Woodbridge
Publisher : London : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape and Antiquity: Aspects of English Culture at Stourhead, 1718 to 1838 written by Kenneth Woodbridge and published by London : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book The Conservation of the Garden at Stourhead and Parts of the Park Relating to it written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: