Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
$65.00
VAN BRUGH. Hart, Vaughan
Cl. New Haven, 2008
Book ID: 76664
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.
288 pp., 150 B&W, 100 color illus.