Item #191835 The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh. Jeremy Musson.
The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh
The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh

The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh

London: Aurum, 2008. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; Colorfully illustrated DJ with black, white and tan lettering; illustrated endpapers; 176 pp; richly illustrated in bw & color, with maps and floorplans. VG/VG(Boards show light shelfwear at top cover and top spine; corners are lightly worn;DJ shows mild shelfwear; pages are clean and bright; text block is solid). Item #191835
ISBN: 9781845130978

"The country houses designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are some of the most original and memorable works of architecture in Britain. He was rightly judged 'The Shakespeare of architects' by Sir John Soane, and was the designer of Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, two of the great iconic houses of their age - indeed any age." "Vanbrugh's life was as remarkable as his houses. The son of a merchant of Flemish origins; his mother was related to many of great landed families of the day. He began his career as a merchant, travelled to India in the service of the East India Company, served as an army officer, was arrested, as a civilian in France and imprisoned on suspicion of being a spy, and became one of the leading Restoration dramatists, writing and producing risque comedies, including "The Relapse"." "Jeremy Musson, drawing on Country Life's unrivalled archive, brings together 150 of the finest photographs of Vanbrugh's surviving country houses, specially taken for the magazine over a period of more than one hundred years. A biographical essay looks at his remarkable life, character, and critical relationship he had with his assistant, Nicholas Hawksmoor." "The images of his major works are accompanied by engaging accounts of his great houses and their landscapes, revealing the imaginative genius, ambition and wit of one of the outstanding Baroque architects."-- BOOK JACKET.

OCLC: 228367379

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