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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
nature abhors a straight line
England’s original contribution to garden art is the landscape park. William Kent was among the first to see that “all nature is a garden.” and his famous dictum that ” nature abhors a straight line.” Interesting in light of linear … Continue reading
AGREEABLE NEGLIGENCE: PLEASURE REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCE
There was a time when landed gentry were able to lead a life of extraordinary privilege and freedom. It was the era of the lordly pleasures. Secure in their wealth, confident of their position, indulged by their countrymen, the aristocrats … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability Brown, Earl Bathurst, Earl of Burlington, Earl of Orford, George Walpole, Georgian England, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Horace Walpole, John Zoffany, Joseph Addison, Lord Bathurst, Lord Rokeby, Pompeo Batoni, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Kent
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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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