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100 1 $aHart, Vaughan,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94001096
245 10 $aSir John Vanbrugh :$bstoryteller in stone /$cVaughan Hart.
260 $aNew Haven :$bPublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvi, 288 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
505 00 $tPreface: Tory Mobs and Ignorant Priests -- $gIntroduction.$t'A good-natured fellow': Vanbrugh's Character and Works for the Crown -- $gI.$t'By Achievement, Arms, Device': Dramatist, Herald and Architect -- $g1.$tWithout thought or lecture': The Early Influences on Vanbrugh -- $g2.$t'The Historicall Argument': The Order of the Garter and Vanbrugh's 'Castle Air' -- $g3.$t'Agreable Objects': Vanbrugh on Architecture, Landscape and Mood -- $g4.$t'The Reverend look of a Temple': Decorum and Vanbrugh's London Church Proposals -- $gII.$t'Building Houses Here T'oblige the Peers': Luxurious Palaces and Sham Castles -- $g5.$t'Wonder enough in the Story': Castle Howard and Blenheim -- $g6.$t'Something of the Castle Air': Characters in Stone at Kimbolton and Seaton Delaval -- $g7.$t'Pleas'd to Storm my Castle': Englishmen's Homes and Castles at Kings Weston, Eastbury, Grimsthorpe and Stowe -- $g8.$t'A sort of Child of my Owne': Autobiography in Stone at 'Goose-Pie' House, Greenwich and Chargate -- $tConclusion: 'Starv'd London Rogues': Country Estates and National Decay -- $gApp. I.$tTranscription of Vanbrugh's 'Reasons Offer'd for Preserving some Part of the Old Manour' of 11 June 1709, sent to the Duchess of Marlborough -- $gApp. II.$tTranscription of 'Mr. Van-Brugg's Proposals about Building ye New Churches', addressed to the Church Commissioners around 1711.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aVanbrugh, John,$d1664-1726$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Domestic$zEngland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006738
650 0 $aArchitecture$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
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