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100 1 $aHart, Vaughan,$d1960-
245 10 $aSir John Vanbrugh :$bstoryteller in stone /$cVaughan Hart.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] ;$aLondon :$bYale University Press,$cc2008.
300 $aix, 288 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps, plans ;$c29 cm.
500 $a"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index.
505 0 $aPreface. 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.
520 1 $a"Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. in this handsome and engaging book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was the fate of Vanbrugh's buildings to be at first maligned and then misunderstood. Hart outlines the contemporary political and social events which influenced the architect and shows how his strikingly original houses, such as those at Seaton Delaval and Grimsthorpe, can be interpreted through reference to classical mythology, renaissance fortifications and medieval houses." "In explaining why Vanbrugh's buildings look the way they do, Hart allows his novel architectural forms to be understood for the first time as expressions of the visual and psychological theories of his friend and fellow Whig Joseph Addison."--Jacket.
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650 0 $aArchitecture$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aArchitects$zEngland.
600 10 $aVanbrugh, John,$d1664-1726$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Domestic$zEngland.
710 2 $aPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHart, Vaughan, 1960-$tSir John Vanbrugh.$dNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008$w(OCoLC)607254351
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