Main entry:

Dalton, Caroline, 1956-

Title & Author:

Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian landscape / Caroline Dalton.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

x, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
"On ye shoulders of giants" : philosophy, science and landscape from the ancients to the moderns -- The early Enlightenment in England -- John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) : a short biography -- Influences on Vanbrugh's landscape style -- Castle Howard, Yorkshire -- Blenheim, Oxfordshire -- Kimbolton, Heythrop and Grimsthorpe -- Claremont, Surrey, and Nottingham Castle -- Kings Weston, Gloucestershire (now Avon) -- Duncombe Park and Sacombe Park -- Eastbury, Dorset -- Stowe, Buckinghamshire -- Seaton Delaval, Northumberland -- Greenwich and Lumley Castle -- Vanbrugh's legacy : Charles Bridgeman and the Vitruvian landscape -- Conclusion : "an architect who composed like a painter."

Summary:

"Caroline Dalton seeks to explain Vanbrugh's distinctive style of landscape architecture. The natural and moral philosophy of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), Euclid, Plato and Epicurus is traced through the Arabic scientists of the Middle Ages into the Italian Renaissance. The book examines the impact of science and humanism on the landscape ethos of Leon Battista Alberti in the Quattrocento and of Andrea Palladio a century later, and looks for parallels with the early Enlightenment in England from 1660 onwards."--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

9780415611633 (hbk.)
0415611636 (hbk.)
9780415611640 (pbk.)
0415611644 (pbk.)

Subject:

Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726.
Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664-1726 Studies.
Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664-1726.
Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726
Vanbrugh, John.
Landscape architects England Biography.
Landscape architecture England.
Gardens, English History 18th century.
Architectes paysagistes Angleterre Biographies.
Architecture du paysage Angleterre.
Jardins anglais Histoire 18e siècle.
Landscape architects Biography. England.
Gardens, English.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
Landschaftsarchitektur
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsgestaltung
England.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278466
Call No.: BIB 214036
Status: Available