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palladio: not fitting the formulas
Andrea Palladio was no Palladian. The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master,s own works fir few of the formulas… …And here for the first time in the history of mankind, was an architecture that had … Continue reading
palladio: values of humanism
Palladio was not much of a Palladian. The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… Palladian architecture is one thing; Palladio’s own architecture, however, is quite another. There is … Continue reading
palladio: when it was glib
The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fir few of the formulas… …But eighteenth-century England, unlike France, extolled grandeur at the expense of comfort. One of the reasons why the British feel so … Continue reading
palladio no palladian
Was Palladio a Palladian? The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… It is an odd thesis to assert that Andrea Palladio is unknown. If any architect has achieved … Continue reading
glories of ownership
The noble houses of eighteenth century England… …For these rooms no expense was spared. The finest plaster workers were brought in from Italy; tons of mahogany and other rare woods were imported from the East and West Indies; gold leaf … Continue reading
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wanton display: noble disregard
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… Diverse as were the economic enterprises and huge as the domestic staaffs came to be, yet these things do not explain entirely why men built such vast palaces. The need to maintain their social … Continue reading
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kent: idyllic ideals
William Kent was architect of both houses and landscapes. He was consulted, according to Horace Walpole, not only for furniture but “for plates, for a barge, for a cradle.” Of his gardens Walpole said: “Mahomet imagined an Elysium, Kent created … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, Chiswick House, Horace Walpole, John Talman, Joseph Losey, Lord Burlington, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Beek painter, The Servant 1963, Timothy Mowl, William Kent Architect, William talman architect
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land equaled power
Nowhere were the changes from barbarism to sophistication so clearly mirrored as in the houses, the furniture, the clothes, the style of life of the rich. By 1750 the Western world had captured a vast commerce unequaled in history and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, Christopher Wren, George Morland paintings, James Boswell, John Wootton paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Adam Architect, Sir Robert Walpole, William Kent Architect
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trump these for size
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England. By 1750 the Western world had captured a vast commerce unequaled in human history. The riches derived from it, enabled men of property, the merchant class, to live in a sophisticated luxury previously enjoyed … Continue reading
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