Sir John Vanbrugh and the vitruvian landscape /
Dalton, Caroline
Sir John Vanbrugh and the vitruvian landscape / Caroline Dalton - Oxon : Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2012. - x, 241 p. : col. ill.
"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."
9780415611640 9780415611633
Landscape architecture
Vanbrugh, John
Gardens, English--History--18th century
Landscape architecture--England
Landscape architects-- England--Biography
712.092 / DAL-S
Sir John Vanbrugh and the vitruvian landscape / Caroline Dalton - Oxon : Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2012. - x, 241 p. : col. ill.
"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."
9780415611640 9780415611633
Landscape architecture
Vanbrugh, John
Gardens, English--History--18th century
Landscape architecture--England
Landscape architects-- England--Biography
712.092 / DAL-S