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Essays in English Architectural History
Howard Colvin
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Description for Essays in English Architectural History
Hardcover. A collection of 18 essays by architectural historian, Howard Colvin. They cover such topics as the idea of a Court Style in mediaeval English architecture, the south front of Wilton House, and the infiltration of the Georgian Office of Works by an architectural pressure group. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 320 pages, 160 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AC; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 266 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1332.
Widely acknowledged as Britain’s leading architectural historian, Sir Howard Colvin has been responsible for fundamental research that has helped to bring about a renaissance in English architectural history in the second half of the twentieth century. In this volume, Colvin gathers eighteen new and revised essays written throughout his distinguished career.
The collection includes five essays never before published, including one which looks afresh at the architectural apparatus of sixteenth-century state entries and another that explores the use of caryatids and other formalized human figures in English architecture from Tudor times onwards. The author also offers reprinted essays, revised where ... Read more
Widely acknowledged as Britain’s leading architectural historian, Sir Howard Colvin has been responsible for fundamental research that has helped to bring about a renaissance in English architectural history in the second half of the twentieth century. In this volume, Colvin gathers eighteen new and revised essays written throughout his distinguished career.
The collection includes five essays never before published, including one which looks afresh at the architectural apparatus of sixteenth-century state entries and another that explores the use of caryatids and other formalized human figures in English architecture from Tudor times onwards. The author also offers reprinted essays, revised where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300070347
SKU
V9780300070347
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About Howard Colvin
Sir Howard Colvin is Emeritus Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford University. Formerly reader in architectural history at Oxford, he was knighted in 1995 for services to his field. He is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 to 1840 and Architecture and the After-Life, both published by Yale University Press.
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