Main entry:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

Title & Author:

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 [by] John Summerson.

Publication:

Baltimore, Penguin Books [1954]

Description:

xviii, 372 pages 192 plates, plans 27 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art, 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355).
The English Renaissance (1530-1610) : Architecture at the court of Henry VIII -- Mid-Tudor patronage and the new fashion (1540-1570) -- Elizabethan architecture : influences and methods -- The prodigy houses of Queen Elizabeth’s reign -- Prodigy houses: the Jacobean sequel -- Building in town and country 1570 –1640 -- Inigo Jones and his times (1610-1660) : Inigo Jones at the court of James I -- The surveyorship of Inigo Jones -- Inigo Jones, his contemporaries and followers -- Artisan mannerism -- Churches and collegiate buildings 1530-1660 -- The restoration : Hugh May; Dr. Christopher Wren -- Wren and the Baroque (1660-1710) : The rebuilding of London : the city churches -- St. Paul’s Cathedral -- The royal works 1660-1702 -- Wren and his contemporaries -- English Baroque Contemporaries -- English baroque: Hawksmore, Vanbrugh, Archer -- The royal works 1702-1726 -- Churches and the universities 1702-1736 -- The Palladian Phase : The Palladian movement: Burlington and Kent -- The individual contribution of James Gibbs -- The Palladian permeation -- The house and the street in the eighteenth century -- Building in gothic: from Wren to Walpole -- Neo-classical and the picturesque (1750-1830) -- Neo-classicism: Englishmen abroad -- William Chambers and Robert Adam -- Neo-classicism: the second phase -- The Picturesque and the cult of styles -- Greek and gothic: architecture after Waterloo -- Appendix I: architecture in Scotland 1530-1707 -- Appendix II: English architecture in America.

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Pelican history of art ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 41326
Call No.: 7754; ID:89-B1447
Status: Available