Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian landscape
By: Caroline Dalton
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780415611633; 9780415611640
Subjects: Landscape architects; Landscape architecture; English Gardens; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "On ye shoulders of giants": philosophy, science and landscape from the ancients to the moderns; title: The early Enlightenment in England; title: John Vanbrugh (1664-1726): a short biography; title: Influences on Vanbrugh's landscape style; title: Castle Howard, Yorkshire; title: Blenheim, Oxfordshire; title: Kimbolton, Heythrop and Grimsthorpe; title: Claremont, Surrey; title: Kings Weston, Avon; title: Duncombe Park and Sacombe Park; title: Eastbury, Dorset; title: Stowe, Buckinghamshire; title: Seaton Delaval, Northumberland; title: Greenwich and Lumley Castle; title: Vanbrugh's legacy: Charles Bridgeman and the Vitruvian landscape; title: Conclusion: "an architect who composed like a painter".