Sir John Vanbrugh
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Storyteller in Stone
Vaughan Hart
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Format: ClothPrice: $50.00
This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726)—by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. Architectural historian Vaughan Hart examines Vanbrugh’s surviving, destroyed, and unrealized buildings—among them Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace—outlining the contemporary political and social events that influenced their design and showing how these strikingly original buildings can be interpreted through reference to classical mythology, Renaissance fortifications, and medieval houses.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Vaughan Hart is Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Bath.
“… an expert on building design [Hart] has been able to master primary historical material in order to create a particular thesis about Vanbrugh which is quite different from those of previous biographies … The book is filled with excellent forays into other aspects of Vanbrugh’s work … [and] is handsomely produced.” - John Graham, Catholic Herald
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
150 b/w + 100 color illus.
