Sir John Vanbrugh and the vitruvian landscape / Caroline Dalton

By:

Dalton, Caroline

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2012. Oxon :Description: x, 241 p. : col. illISBN:

9780415611640
9780415611633

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

712.092 DAL-S

Contents:

: "On ye shoulders of giants" : philosophy, science and landscape from the ancients to the moderns -- The early Enlightenment in England -- John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) : a short biography -- Influences on Vanbrugh's landscape style -- Castle Howard, Yorkshire -- Blenheim, Oxfordshire -- Kimbolton, Heythrop and Grimsthorpe -- Claremont, Surrey, and Nottingham Castle -- Kings Weston, Gloucestershire (now Avon) -- Duncombe Park and Sacombe Park -- Eastbury, Dorset -- Stowe, Buckinghamshire -- Seaton Delaval, Northumberland -- Greenwich and Lumley Castle -- Vanbrugh's legacy : Charles Bridgeman and the Vitruvian landscape -- Conclusion : "an architect who composed like a painter."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-1	Non Fiction	712.092 DAL-S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008314

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