Sir John Vanbrugh
Subtitle: storyteller in stone
By: Vaughan Hart.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300119299
Subjects: Vanbrugh, John, -- Sir, -- 1664-1726 -- Criticism and interpretation; Architecture, Domestic -- England; Architecture -- England -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. Tory mobs and ignorant priests; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. "Without thought or lecture" : the early influences on Vanbrugh; title: Ch. 2. "The historicall argument" : the Order of the Garter and Vanbrugh's 'castle air'; title: Ch. 3. "Agreable objects" : Vanbrugh on architecture, landscape, and mood; title: Ch. 4. "The Reverend look of a temple"; title: Ch. 5. "Wonder enough in the story" : Castle Howard and Blenheim; title: Ch. 6. Something of the castle air" : characters in stone at Kimbolton and Seaton Delaval; title: Ch. 7. "Pleas'd to storm my castle" : Englishmen's homes and castles at Kings Weston, Eastbury, Grimsthorpe, and Stowe; title: Ch. 8. "A sort of child of my owne" : autobiography in stone at 'Goose-Pie' House, Greenwich and Chargate; title: Conclusion.