Entrée principale:

Hyams, Edward, 1910-1975.

Titre et auteur:

Capability Brown and Humphry Repton, by Edward Hyams.

Publication:

New York, Scribner [1971]

Description:

vii, 248 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portrait 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239).
Capability Brown. The picturesque landscape -- Apprentice at Stowe -- The seventeen-fifties -- Blenheim to Fenstanton -- Fame and fortune -- Chambers's dissertation -- The Cambridge backs -- Brown and the Chathams -- An agreeable companion -- Humphrey Repton. Jack of all trades -- Master of one -- Red books in practice -- Fame and fortune -- The picturesque controversy -- The Nash partnership -- Repton and sons -- Repton as author -- The Brighton pavilion -- From a wheel chair -- Note on Repton's sons -- Appendix 1. Surviving works of Capability Brown -- Appendix 2. Surviving works of Humphrey Repton.

Résumé:

Inspired by French and Italian landscape painting, a number of eighteenth-century artist-gardeners led by William Kent created an art-form unique in the West, althought favoured from times of antiquity in China and Japan: the picturesque garden - virtually a landscape picture made not of paint on canvas but of real country and buildings. Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of this art, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from 'natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both , in the course of their work, met many of the leading men of their day, and George III made a friend of Brown; both, in their different ways, exerted a lasting influence on other landscape designers, including those of America and Europe. -- Book jacket.

ISBN:

0684102730
9780684102733

Sujet:

Brown, Lancelot, 1716-1783.
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.
Landscape architects England Biography.
Landscape architecture England History.
Architectes paysagistes Angleterre Biographies.
Architecture du paysage Angleterre Histoire.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture
England

Classification/genre:

Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 19128
Cote: 85; ID:87-B6364
Statut: Disponible