Classical architecture in Britain : the Heroic Age / Giles Worsley
1995, 1st edition. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385338
ISBN: 0300058969
Physical description; xiii, 349 pp., illustrations (some color), 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pp. 327-329) and index. Contents; No lonely genius : Inigo Jones and his contemporaries -- Post-restoration Palladianism -- Neo-classicism from Jones to Hawksmoor -- Late seventeenth-century architecture and the Baroque interlude -- Removing the Palladian straight-jacket -- Towards the establishment of a neo-Palladian style -- Palladian neo-classicism -- Palladianism on the peripheries : Scotland, Ireland and the Americas before 1748 -- Continuing Gothic tradition -- Palladian interior and the importance of garden buildings -- Palladian ascendancy -- Adam, "movement" and neo-classicism -- Palladianism on the peripheries : Scotland, Ireland and the Americas after 1748 -- End of Palladian primacy. Subjects; Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580 Influence. Classicism in architecture Great Britain.
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