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Subject(s)

• Architecture, Georgian—Great Britain [Browse]
• Architecture—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Architecture—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• English Heritage [Browse]

Related work(s)

Curl, James Stevens, 1937- Georgian architecture. [Browse]

Summary note

"First published in 1993, this is a fully revised and newly illustrated guide to the architecture of the British Isles during the reigns of the first four Georges (1714-1830). The term Georgian suggests a dignified, often symmetrical facade of brick, with elegant sash-windows, a doorcase (usually with a fanlight), and a well-mannered and reticent appearance. The book shows the remarkable diversity of the architecture created during the era, from the grander Classicism influenced by the architecture of Italy, notably that of Andrea Palladio (1508-80), to the exotic tastes for Chinoiserie, Rococo, Gothick, and even the Indian styles. All of these aspects are discussed, setting the scene in respect of notions concerned with the aesthetic categories of the Beautiful, the Picturesque, and the Sublime and drawing attention especially to the importance of the Picturesque during the Georgian period. This handsome book is a celebration of the main themes found in building-design of the time, and an examination of the stylistic choices of the age: Palladianism, the search for uncorrupted Classical sources through the study of Antiquity, the various revivals of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian styles, the taste for the exotic and for Orientalism, and the growing interest in medieval architecture, monastic remains and ruins which played such an important part in the Gothic Revival."-- Publisher's website.

Notes

SA purchase supported by the Elise and Wesley Wright, Jr. '51 Marquand Book Fund.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-425) and index.

Contents

• The Georgian period
• The second Palladian Revival
• The Romantic Revolution I
• The Romantic Revolution II
• Archaeology and the revival of Classical Antiquity
• Georgian churches
• Industrial, commercial, institutional, educational, and other buildings
• Georgian pleasures
• Planning of villages and towns
• Places for the living and for the dead
• Epilogue.

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ISBN

• 9781848020863 ((hardcover))
• 1848020864 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2011500583

OCLC

768474276

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