 | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - Architecture - 1827 - 696 pages
...prodigious. Sir William Petty computes its population to have doubled itself every forty years, from the year 1600 ; consequently, in 1680 it must have contained...the best architectural style of this period, which INIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary... | |
 | Architecture - 1828 - 198 pages
...Inigo Jones, notwithstanding his staunch papism, to build for him his splendid palace of Whitehall j whose banqueting house and splendid ceiling, by Rubens,...the best architectural style of this period, which INIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and him> self had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary... | |
 | Country life - 1847 - 614 pages
...essential. Practically, therefore, they seem to evince their concurrence in the opinion of Lord Verulam, that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." The log cabin, at first intended as a castle of security against savages and wild beasts, as well as... | |
 | 1870 - 708 pages
...established, and there is no maxim of Bacon less applicable to our condition than that in which tfe claims that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." On the contrary, our houses are built to look at, and not to live in. They are not our property, but... | |
 | Charles Herbert Moore - Architecture, Renaissance - 1905 - 334 pages
...and generally good proportions. It embodies the essentially English idea, as expressed by Lord Bacon, that, " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." J And while this remark may seem to ignore architecture as such, ie the fine art of beautiful building,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton - Great Britain - 1907 - 550 pages
...much more serious conception of the importance and principles of architecture. Bacon begins by saying that' Houses are built to live in, and not to look on', and he makes comfort rather than uniformity the main object of the builder. His imaginary house is... | |
 | Albert Gardner Robinson - Architecture - 1919 - 168 pages
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their... | |
 | ALBERT G. ROBINSON - 1919 - 184 pages
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - Blenheim Palace (Blenheim, Oxfordshire). - 1925 - 438 pages
...a little modifying his conceptions of the plastic purpose of architecture, adopting rather Bacon's maxim that " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ", he made, although still a noble pile, the most habitable of all his dwellings. In the meantime the... | |
 | Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...landscape from hills and ridges, proclaimed the power and riches of their owners. Although Bacon urged that 'houses are built to live in, and not to look on', nothing could have been less true of the prodigy houses of his day, and it is significant that he felt... | |
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Inigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal reformers of taste among the learned and noble men of this period, the great LORD CHANCELLOR BACON stands in the foremost rank ; and his published opinions on architecture and gardening, are decisive... 