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A History of Architecture

Book by Fiske Kimball, George Harold Edgell; Harper & Brothers, 1918

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Architecture--History

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...both interior and exterior. Vanbrugh. The dual tendencies of the...contrast in the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, who took up architecture at thirty-five, after a...building at Oxford, designed by Vanbrugh and his pupil Nicholas Hawksmoor...
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World Architecture: An Illustrated History

Book by H. R. Hitchcock, Seton Lloyd, David Talbot Rice, Norbert Lynton, Andrew Boyd, Andrew Carden, Philip Rawson, John Jacobus; McGraw-Hill, 1963

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Architecture--History

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...dominated both church and court architecture. The needs of lesser patrons...1712 and 1723, and Sir John Vanbrugh. 844 Vanbrugh 1664-1726 came to architecture...in Bavaria. At Greenwich, Vanbrugh built for himself a little brick...
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

Book by Leland M. Roth; Westview Press, 1993

Subjects:

Architecture, Architecture--History

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...in later Arts and Crafts architecture. Built of red brick, with...reminiscent of the English Baroque architecture of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, but the vernacular tradition...very essence of the domestic architecture of Charles Francis Annesley...
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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste

Book by Geoffrey Scott; Constable and Company Ltd., 1924

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Architecture

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...merits of the old national architecture, were a mere travesty of...academic influence rescued the architecture of England and France. It...means and not an end. Wren, Vanbrugh, and Adam in England, and the whole eighteenth-century architecture of France, are evidence...
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Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700

Book by Anthony Blunt; Penguin Books, 1953

Subjects:

Architecture, Modern--France, Architecture--France, Art, Modern--France, Art--France

Collections: History, Entire Library

...given by Hautecoeur, Architecture , II, 583 ff. 60...Bruand see Hautecoeur, Architecture , II, 520 and 724. 61. These arcades influenced Vanbrugh who imitated them in...Blenheim and Grimsthorpe. Vanbrugh could have known Bruants...

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"Begin to Grow Rude and Clamorous": English Politics and the Battle over Church Architecture, 1714-1760

Journal article by R. Barry Levis; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 47, 2005

Subjects:

Architecture, Church & state, Church buildings, European history, Politics, United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...and the Battle over Church Architecture, 1714-1760 by R. Barry...ushered in the new style of architecture from Italy influenced by...completing work left unfinished by Vanbrugh. More significantly he was...discussed the new Palladian architecture with his father-in-law...
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A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses

Journal article by Stephen Clarke; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 22, 2000

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Architecture--Portrayals, Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...trophies of the Grand Tour--and the architecture of the houses themselves, and their...taste had moral implications in the architecture and furnishing and disposition of houses...Guides, 1740-1840, in Concerning Architecture: Essays on Architectural Writers and...
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Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Journal article by Jonathan Lamb; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, 2001

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English literature--18th century, Gothic revival (Literature)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...anthologies and elegant extracts. In art and architecture he notes (with some excelle nt illustrations...anciennete, notably gardening and architecture. Readers of Popes Epistle to Burlington...with his contribution to landscape and architecture, makes an important contribution to...
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Sexual Politics in Elizabeth Inchbald

Journal article by Anna Lott; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 34, 1994

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Essays--Analysis, Feminist literature--Analysis, Inchbald, Elizabeth--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Relative to Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture, the Drama, Discoveries of Science...frailty" is more compassionate than that of Vanbrugh, who died before he finished the play. Vanbrugh had intended to punish his heroine by having...
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Bust Story: Pope at Stowe, or the Politics and Myths of Landscape Gardening

Journal article by Francesca Orestano; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 38, 2005

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Authors--Appreciation, Gardens--Buildings and facilities, Gardens--Design and construction, Memorial monuments--Design and construction, Memorial monuments--Location, Pope, Alexander--Appreciation, Sepulchral monuments--Design and construction, Sepulchral monuments--Location, Statesmen--Appreciation, Writers--Appreciation

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...for reviving the order of classical architecture" (Brownell 203-04). Finally...discusses money and property through architecture and gardening, "not merely aesthetic...poetry must also be cherished because of architecture, landscape gardening, political discourse...

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Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone

Magazine article by David Watkin; The Architectural Review, Vol. 225, January 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...herald and architect, Vanbrugh knew that since antiquity...pretentious failure in both architecture and heraldry, puncturing the claim of the Whig Vanbrugh to a dynastic house...recent discovery that Vanbrugh visited India and drew...
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The AR Asked Five of Its Esteemed Contributors to Reflect on the Legacy of James Stirling for Architectural Historians and Practioners Today

Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 229, April 2011

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Architecture--Appreciation, Architecture--Works, Historians--Appreciation, Historians--Comparative analysis, Stirling, James (Scottish architect)--Appreciation, Stirling, James (Scottish architect)--Works

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...Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh, John Soane and Philip...contribution to the theory of architecture, this plastic, even Mannerist...occasions. Background architecture was definitely not his...anyone who believes in architectures creative potential. As...James Stirling Professor of Architecture at Liverpool University...
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The Gothic Revival Revisited

Magazine article by George M. Wedd; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, September 1997

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Architects--United Kingdom, Church architecture--19th century, Gothic revival (Architecture)--History, United Kingdom--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.

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...and its impact was not simply in architecture, but extended into domestic furnishing...included other things besides good architecture, and that the Oxford Movement and...a short book, the Seven Lamps of Architecture, and the names of the lamps will indicate...
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Strawberry Hill: I Am Going to Build a Little Gothic Castle', Declared Horace Walpole as He Began Work on Strawberry Hill. Marion Harney Considers the History of the House and Its Garden, One of the Greatest Picturesque Ensembles

Magazine article by Marion Harney; The Architectural Review, Vol. 224, November 2008

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Authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Authors--Homes and haunts, Authors--Works, Country homes--Design and construction, Country homes--History, Country homes--Names, Walpole, Horace--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Walpole, Horace--Homes and haunts, Walpole, Horace--Works, Writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Writers--Homes and haunts, Writers--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...informality-Addison, Pope, Vanbrugh, Kent Pursuit of nature...geometrical patterns. John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was an...7) At Blenheim, Vanbrugh prefigured the Picturesque...fusion of landscape, architecture and the appeal of ruins...
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Tradition and Innovation John McAslan + Partners

Magazine article by Martin Pawley; The Architectural Review, Vol. 211, March 2002

Subjects:

Architects--Technique, Architectural firms--Management, John McAslan and Partners--Management, McAslan, John--Technique

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...work, John McAslans lives in architecture are introduced by Martin Pawley...McAslan has had two lives in architecture, both spent in Notting Hill...while building bridges between architecture and engineering, with clarity...

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Palace in Wonderland; Architect John Taylor Took a Break from Building Shopping Centres to Create His Fairytale Castle - Complete with the Follies Inspired by Alice

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 21, 2004

Subjects:

Taylor, John (English pop musician), Vanbrugh, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...love of an older and more traditional style of architecture? His widow, Susan, says that despite dedicating...follies designed by great names of 18th Century architecture such as Sir John Vanbrugh and William Kent. Even 25 years ago, building...
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PASTIMES: Discover the Secrets of Blenheim Palace; There Is No Better Time to Spend a Day at Blenheim Palace Than in the Year That Sees the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II. Travel Editor Paul Groves Reports

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 7, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...recognition of his victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. It is a masterpiece of English Baroque architecture, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh. Visitors to the Palace begin their tour in the Great Hall, renowned for its stone enrichments and...
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Such Colourful Lives within Its Walls

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 28, 2005

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...When the architect Sir John Vanbrugh arrived on the Northumbrian...great feats of 18th Century architecture. As he walked around the site Vanbrugh had behind him a life as...painting, sculpture, architecture, geography and astronomy...
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A Media Story That Has Suffered Tunnel Vision for Too Long; TV WATCH

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...some of the greatest names in British architecture and landscape gardening worked here, from Vanbrugh to Capability Brown. Because there was...the foreground as a way of explaining how Vanbrugh would have been saved from death by quinsy...
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Palladio the Pedant; (1) Homage: Chiswick House in West London, in the Style of Palladio (2) Architects' Architect: Andrea Palladio by El Greco. below Left, a Model of His Villa Rotonda outside Vicenza, a Construction That Was a Man- Made Complement to the Natural Landscape

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 30, 2009

Subjects:

Architects

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...significant figure in the history of Western architecture". This begs to be challenged: how...Suger, the patron who launched Gothic architecture? Or Imhotep who, by stacking up burial...pyramid, and with it kicked off Western architecture altogether and, better than the peerages...

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Vanbrugh, Sir John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN vanbroo , van...immorality of the English stage. Vanbrugh was an inventive playwright...reputation as an architect grew, Vanbrugh turned away from the stage...1971); study of his architecture by K. Downs (1977...
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Georgian Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE It includes several trends in English architecture that were predominant during...to a classicizing form of architecture, based on the works of...and carried on by Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and...
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English Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ENGLISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE the distinctive national art and architecture that art may be said to...time when secular art and architecture began to assume greater...Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh, whose massive country...

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