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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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Tagged Andrea Palladio, David Chipperfield RA, English Tudor houses Hardwick Hall, English Tudor Houses Longleat, Filippo Brunelleschi, Jan Siberechts Dutch Artist, Lord Hervey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Palladio, Palladio architecture, William Hogarth
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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YE OLDE LORDLY PLEASURES: HOW SWEET IT IS
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Earl of Burlington, George Stubbs, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Neo-Classical art, Palladio, Spitting Image, Thomas Coltman, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Kent
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THE PUMP-ROOM CHRONICLES
With the arrival of Beau Nash at Bath in 1702, the city would change into the city it became. It was during his time and with his encouragement that Bath began to take on an entirely different aspect. The one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Beau Nash Bath, Christopher Anstey, Dr. Oliver Bath, George Moutard Woodward, Georgette Heyer, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, John Nixon King's bath, John Wood Architect Bath, Palladio, Ralph Allen Bath, Royal Mineral Water Hospital, Thomas Fielding, Thomas Rowlandson, Tobias Smollet, William Hoare
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