Title The building of Castle Howard / Charles Saumarez Smith

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Description xviii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Patron -- Early Life -- Family Origins -- Political Career -- Court Architecture -- Taste Formation -- Cultural Geography -- 2. The Architect -- Architectural Commission -- Visual Sources -- Early Projects -- Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor -- Design Analysis -- 3. The House -- Building Construction -- Sources of Income -- Financial Difficulties -- Economic Implications -- 4. The Interior -- Textile Furnishings -- Painted Decoration -- Iconographic Interpretations -- Furniture and Fittings -- Life Style -- 5. The Garden -- Early Planting -- Raywood Rediviva -- Estate Improvement -- Architectural Parterre -- Garden Buildings -- Landscape Interpretation -- Literary Classicism -- 6. The Mausoleum -- Original Idea -- Rational Theology -- Classical Antecedents -- Burlingtonians Intervention -- Aesthetic Result -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index Notes Rewrite of author's Ph. D. thesis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Includes index Subject Carlisle, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1674-1738 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- North Yorkshire. Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736 -- Criticism and interpretation. Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726 -- Criticism and interpretation. Castle Howard (England) Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- England -- North Yorkshire. LC no. 89052015 ISBN 0226764036 (alk. paper)

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