Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in StoneThis engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726)—by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. Architectural historian Vaughan Hart examines Vanbrugh’s surviving, destroyed, and unrealized buildings—among them Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace—outlining the contemporary political and social events that influenced their design and showing how these strikingly original buildings can be interpreted through reference to classical mythology, Renaissance fortifications, and medieval houses. |
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Contents
Vanbrughs Character | 1 |
The Whig Golden | 22 |
2 | 45 |
Vanbrugh on Architecture Landscape and Mood | 83 |
Vanbrugh and | 99 |
Decorum and Vanbrughs | 111 |
99 | 142 |
Characters in Stone | 147 |
Englishmens Homes | 171 |
Autobiography in Stone | 213 |
Country Estates | 243 |
Transcription of Vanbrughs Reasons Offerd | 253 |
Transcription of Mr VanBruggs Proposals about | 254 |
108 | 258 |
| 275 | |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art S The Association of Human Rights Institutes series |
| Author | Vaughan Hart |
| Contributor | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2008 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 19, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0300119291, 9780300119299 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General |
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