Title: The Houses of Parliament : history, art, architecture /
Authors: Cannadine, David, 1950-
Publisher: Merrell ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications through St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Westminster Palace (London, England); Westminster Palace (London, England) History.; Great Britain. History.; Westminster Palace (London, England) Art collections.; Westminster Palace (London, England) in art.; Public buildings Great Britain London.; Gothic revival (Architecture) Great Britain; Westminster (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc.; London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
Abstract: This text offers new insight into one of Britain's most famous, celebrated and complex buildings. It places the building within a broad historical, political and cultural context.
Contents: Introduction : theatre of state / Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding -- The palace of Westminster as palace of varieties / David Cannadine -- The staging of ceremonies of state in the House of Lords / Henry S. Cobb -- The medieval palace of Westminster / John Goodall -- Romancing the past : image and theatre at the coronation of George IV / Steven Parissien -- "My gorgeous palace" : Richard II, restorations and revival / Jacqueline Riding -- Parliament's genius loci : the politics of place after the 1834 fire / Andrea Fredericksen -- The new palace of Westminster / Alexandra Wedgwood -- Sir John Soane and the late Georgian origins of the royal entrance / Sean Sawyer -- "We shape our building and afterwards our buildings shape us" : Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and the rebuilding of the House of Commons / Gavin Stamp -- "New furniture of a suitable and proper character" : the working interiors 1849-60 / Dorian Church -- The aura of sacred mystery : thrones in the new palace of Westmisnter / Christine Riding -- The speaker's house / Christine Riding, Dorian Church and Christopher Garibaldi -- Prince Albert and the Fine Arts Commission / Janet McLean -- "God help the minister who meddles in art" : history painting in the new palace of Westminster / William Vaughan -- Myth and monarchy : chivalric legends for the Victorian Age / Debra N. Mancoff -- Sculpture and the new palace of Westminster / Benedict Read.