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Terms and conditions applyElizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
Mark Girouard
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Format: Book
Pages: 288
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: Oct 2009
Stock Code: 68459
ISBN: 9780300093865
Binding: Hardback
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Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting - is a phenomenon as remarkable as the literature which accompanied it, the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlow, and others.
In this beautiful and fascinating book, Girouard discusses social structure and the way of life behind it, the evolution of the house plan, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and craftsmen as they learnt about the classic Five Orders and the buildings of Ancient Rome. Behind the book is a vivid consciousness of the European scene, and the different ways in which different countries reacted to new influences yet did not abandon their native traditions. Italy, France, central Europe and above all the Low Countries provide the background, and England was influenced by all of them; but the principal argument of the book is the individuality of the English achievement.
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