The Renaissance Villa in Britain 1500 - 1700
by Airs, Malcolm; Tyack, GeoffreyFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-11-30
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary
Leading architectural and garden historians trace the early history of the villa in Britain for the first time. The alluring ideal of villa life originated in classical antiquity, was revived in Renaissance Italy, and then spread throughout Europe, producing new and exciting architectural forms. This book contains both thematic chapters and case studies with famous buildings such as the Queen's House, Greenwich (Inigo Jones), and Winslow Hall, Buckinghamshire (attributed to Wren) being analysed and reinterpreted. Contributors include Nicholas Cooper, Andor Gomme, Gordon Higgott and Charles McKean. Copiously illustrated, with plentiful plans, the book is a major contribution to the history of domestic architecture and garden design in Britain, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in early modern society and the history of the built environment.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 7 |
| The English Villa: Sources, Forms and Functions | p. 9 |
| A Place to 'Cultivate the Soul': the Idea of the Villa in the Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth Centuries | p. 25 |
| Halls into Vestibules | p. 38 |
| Some later Jacobean Villas in Scotland | p. 64 |
| Plain English or Anglo-Palladian? Seventeenth-Century Country Villa Plans | p. 89 |
| Gardens and Courtyards of the Seventeenth-Century Villa and Smaller House | p. 111 |
| The Environs of London: the Suburban Villa as Rural Retreat | p. 127 |
| Inigo Jones's Designs for the Queen's House in 1616 | p. 140 |
| Tart Hall: the Countess of Arundel's 'Casino' at Whitehall | p. 167 |
| Kew Palace | p. 180 |
| Country Retreats in Seventeenth-Century Hertfordshire | p. 192 |
| Forty Hall and Tyttenhanger | p. 206 |
| Winslow Hall | p. 223 |
| Contributors | p. 247 |
| Notes | p. 250 |
| Index | p. 272 |
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