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Sir John Vanbrugh
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Christopher Ridgway Robert Williams

Sir John Vanbrugh

Christopher Ridgway,  Robert Williams,  National Trust

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English
The History Press Ltd
01 August 2024
Palaces, chateaux, country houses; Landscape art & architecture; Biography: historical, political & military; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
The life of the influential Sir John Vanburgh and his role in defining the architectural landscape of England.

Sir John Vanbrugh is celebrated today as one of England's finest country house architects. His masterpieces include palatial private homes such as Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, greatly admired by any enthusiast of English Baroque architecture. However, his work extended far beyond such projects, and included a remarkable variety of temples, belvederes, pyramids and many other features which he designed for the gardens and parks of the estates at which he worked.

The originality of such work has shown that Vanbrugh played a crucial role in the development of the eighteenth-century English garden, and this unique and fascinating book uses the fruits of new research to assess just what contribution this great man made to our heritage.

AUTHORS: Christopher Ridgeway is Curator at Castle Howard and has written and lectured widely on its architecture, gardens and collections. Robert Williams is an art book editor based in London and a research author for the collections at Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia.

160 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781803997407
ISBN 10:   1803997400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Christopher Ridgway is head curator at Castle Howard, chair of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University. He is currently completing a book on Castle Howard. Robert Williams is an arts books editor based in Sussex and is currently completing his own book-length study of the early eighteenth-century poet Richard Savage.

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