Sir John Vanbrugh : storyteller in stone / Vaughan Hart
2008, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #386238
ISBN: 9780300119299
Physical description; ix, 288 pp., illustrations (some color), maps, 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface. Tory mobs and ignorant priests -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. "Without thought or lecture" : the early influences on Vanbrugh -- Ch. 2. "The historicall argument" : the Order of the Garter and Vanbrugh's 'castle air' -- Ch. 3. "Agreable objects" : Vanbrugh on architecture, landscape, and mood -- Ch. 4. "The Reverend look of a temple" -- Ch. 5. "Wonder enough in the story" : Castle Howard and Blenheim -- Ch. 6. Something of the castle air" : characters in stone at Kimbolton and Seaton Delaval -- Ch. 7. "Pleas'd to storm my castle" : Englishmen's homes and castles at Kings Weston, Eastbury, Grimsthorpe, and Stowe -- Ch. 8. "A sort of child of my owne" : autobiography in stone at 'Goose-Pie' House, Greenwich and Chargate -- Conclusion. Subjects; Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726 Criticism and interpretation. Architecture, Domestic England. Seventeenth century Baroque architecture.
Price: €48.00