Main entry:

Riding, Christine.

Title & Author:

The Houses of Parliament : history, art, architecture / [text by] Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding [and others] ; edited by Iain Ross.

Publication:

London : Merrell, 2000.

Description:

288 pages ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index.
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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1858941121 (hardcover)
9781858941127 (hardcover)

Subject:

Westminster Palace (London, England)
Great Britain. Parliament Art collections.
Great Britain. Parliament History.
Westminster Palace (London, England) History.
Westminster Palace (Londres, Angleterre)
Westminster Palace (Londres, Angleterre) Histoire.
Great Britain. Parliament.
Art museums.
Buildings.
Westminster (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London Westminster.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Riding, Jacqueline.
Ross, Iain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213440
Call No.: NA4415.G72 W4 2000
Status: Available

Location: Library main 213439
Call No.: NA4415.G72 W4 2000
Status: Available