Main entry:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

Title & Author:

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 / John Summerson.

Edition:

8th rev. ed.

Publication:

Harmondsworth ; New York : Penguin Books, 1991.

Description:

588 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-549) and index.
Part one : The English renaissance (1530-1610) -- The building works of Henry VIII -- Tudor patronage and the 'new fashion' -- Elizabethan building : Influences and methods -- The prodigy houses of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- Prodigy houses : the Jacobean sequel -- Building in town and country 1570-1640 -- Part two : Inigo Jones and his times (1610-1660) -- Inigo Jones at the court of James I -- The surveyorship of Inigo Jones 1615-1643 -- Inigo Jones, his contemporaries and followers -- Architecture and the artisan 1615-75 -- Churches and collegiate buildings 1530-1660 -- The restoration : Hugh May ; Dr. Christopher Wren -- Part three : Wren and the baroque (1660-1710) -- The rebuilding of London : the city of churches -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- The royal works, 1660-1702 -- Wren and his contemporaries -- English baroque : Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh, Archer -- The royal works, 1702-26 -- Churches and the universities 1702-36 -- Part four : The palladian phase (1710-50) -- The palladian movement : Campbell, Burlington, and Kent -- The individuality of James Gibbs -- Palladian permeation : the villa -- The house and the street in the eighteenth century -- Building in gothic : from Wren to Walpole -- Part five : Neo-classicism and the picturesque (1750-1830) -- Neo-classicism : Britons abroad -- William Chambers and Robert Adam -- Neo-classicism : the second generation -- Materials and methods in the age of 'improvement' -- 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.

ISBN:

014056103X
9780140561036
0140561765 (pbk.)
9780140561760 (pbk.)
0140560033 (cased, UK)
9780140560039 (cased, UK)
0300053169 (Yale University Press)
9780300053166 (Yale University Press)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain.
Architecture, Renaissance Great Britain.
Architecture, Baroque Great Britain.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain History.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture de la Renaissance Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture baroque Grande-Bretagne.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Architecture, Baroque
Architecture, Renaissance
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Great Britain
Architecture History

Form/genre:

paperbacks.
Typefaces.
History

Added entries:

Pelican history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72309
Call No.: ID:92-B115
Status: Available