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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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the great estates: country life
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… …The great age of building came to France in the sixteenth century, the time when many of the fabulous chateaux of the Loire were built, creating a tradition of palatial architecture which, modified and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cholmondeley Family, Christopher Wren, England Hanoverian kings, Georgian England, Horace Walpole, Houghton Hall England, Inigo Jones, John Wootton painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, the Four Georges, William Hogarth
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fire of london: desolation row
On Sunday, September 2, 1666, fire burst out in a riverside area of London. The season was dry, the city wooden, and a perverse east wind kept fanning the flames. Ever curious, Samuel Pepys climbed a turret to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Wren, Great Fire of London, Henry Wheatley, John Evelyn diarist, John Locke, Leo Hollis author, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Ashley, Molly Harrison, O.M. Royston, Robert Latham, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys Diary, St. Paul's cathedral
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GOTHIC D.I.Y & FORGETTING TO DIE
You can build it. We can help. Lets build something together.So the slogans go. The eighteenth-century quest for the shudders went well beyond the craving for ”horrid” novels and took the form of horrid architecture that seemed to be permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Amanda Vickery, Batty Langley, Charles Over, Christopher Wren, Desmond Williams, Dr. Johnson, Helen Keller, Horace Walpole, Horton Folly Tower, Humphrey Sturt, Inigo Jones, James Bond, Jonathan Glancey, Madeline Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts, Shusaku Arakawa
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