The John Talman Letter-book
Author: Graham Parry
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 273
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Author: Graham Parry
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 273
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Talman
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Published: 1770*
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cinzia Maria Sicca
Publisher: Studies in British Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a full-length study of John Talman, the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th century Britain.
Author: Francis Lawrance Bickley
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters written 1475-1830, selected from the Reports of the Historical manuscripts commission.
Author: John Talman
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Published: 1757
Total Pages: 7
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-10-20
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 019252853X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people such as John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, and Roger North. Matthew Walker explores how these figures treated architecture as a subject of intellectual enquiry, either as writers, as designers of buildings, or as both. In four substantial chapters it looks at how the architect was defined as a major intellectual figure, how architects acquired material that allowed them to define themselves as intellectually competent architects, how intellectual writers in the period handled knowledge of ancient architecture in their writing, and how the design process in architecture was conceived of in theoretical writing at the time. In all, Walker shows that the key to understanding English architectural culture at the time is to understand how architecture was handled as knowledge, and how architects were conceived of as collectors and producers of such knowledge. He also makes the claim that architecture was treated as an extremely serious and important area of intellectual enquiry, the result of which was that by the turn of the eighteenth century, architects and architectural writers could count themselves amongst England's intellectual and cultural elite.
Author: Susan Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1351909886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce described as 'England's Apollo' James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was an outstanding patron of the arts during the first half of the eighteenth century. Having acquired great wealth and influence as Paymaster-General of Queen Anne's forces abroad, Chandos commissioned work from leading artists, architects, poets and composers including Godfrey Kneller, William Talman, Sir John Vanbrugh, Sir James Thornhill, John Gay and George Frederick Handel. Despite his associations with such renowned figures, Chandos soon gained a reputation for tasteless extravagance. This reputation was not helped by the publication in 1731 of Alexander Pope's poem 'Of Taste' which was widely regarded as a satire upon Chandos and Cannons, the new house he was building near Edgware. The poem destroyed Chandos's reputation as a patron of the arts and ensured that he was remembered as a man lacking in taste. Yet, as this book shows, such a judgement is plainly unfair when the Duke's patronage is considered in more depth and understood within the artistic context of his age. By investigating the patronage and collections of the Duke, through an examination of documentary sources and contemporary accounts, it is possible to paint a very different picture of the man. Rather than the epitome of bad taste described by his enemies, it is clear that Chandos was an enlightened patron who embraced new ideas, and strove to establish a taste for the Palladian in England, which was to define the Georgian era.
Author: Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1606060422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
Author: Josiah Staunton Moore
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : O.E. Flanhart printing Company
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 812
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Morgan Evans
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-08-25
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1803271590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book collects and republishes 14 key academic works by Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944–2017). Spanning early medieval studies, the management and conservation of ancient monuments, histories of antiquarianism, and the Welsh church of Llangar, the chapters have been freshly edited and published together for the first time with new illustrations.