Felibien's Life of Poussin

Pace, Claire

Arts & Photography

Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns

Described as "the perfect Baroque city," the southeastern Sicilian city of Noto was totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 and then rebuilt by ambitious citizens eager to match Italian achievements. The Genesis of Noto traces the complex history of Noto's foundation and growth as a grid-planned Renaissance-Baroque utopia.

The Genesis of Noto: An Eighteenth-Century Sicilian City (Studies in Architecture, V. 21)

Tobriner, Stephen

Architecture

Sir Raymond Unwin: Architect, Planner and Visionary (Architects in Perspective)

Jackson, Frank

English Baroque Architecture

DOWNES, Kerry

From DJ Flap: First-ever book devoted to landscape garden designs of William Kent, the most important of all contributors to the so-called English landscape garden. Also a catalogue of his landscape designs and related drawings (115 items, illustrated). (Description by http-mart)

William Kent: Landscape Garden Designer : An Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs (Studies in Architecture)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hunt, John Dixon

Gardening & Landscape Design

One of the most individual and inventive exponents of the English Palladian style in the generation which followed that of Lord Burlington and William Kent, James Paine (1717-89) was a leading pioneer of the Palladian villa as a country-house form and an early designer of Rococo interior decoration. His lively elevational style, exemplified particularly in the Midlands and North of England where much of his work was done, developed from early experiments with facade-width giant pediments such as that at Serlby Hall to striking compositions of a triple-pedimented form, as at Stockeld Park and Bywell Hall; but by the time he designed the magnificent circular staircase at Wardour Castle public taste had passed to Robert Adam. Paine's career epitomises the change in the role of the professional architect which took place during the mid-eighteenth century, from confinement largely to official circles and a narrow grouping of traditional patrons to the status of an independent figure in private practice in Paine's case with a wide variety of clients ranging from leading members of the Whig aristocracy to northern coal-owners and new men of commerce. He was one of the first to take articled apprentices under the title of 'architect'; and he emerges as a confident pioneer of a new professionalism, a figure prophetic of the standing and responsibilities of the architect in eras to come.

James Paine (Studies in Architecture, Vol 25)

Leach, Peter E.

, 336 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, complete

Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings (Studies in Architecture)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Higgott, Gordon

Harris, John.

How To Create Comics & Manga

Toy Theatres of the World

Peter Baldwin

George Speaight

Humor & Entertainment

Spencer House is one of the great architectural landmarks of London. Built in the eighteenth century by John, 1st Earl Spencer, an ancestor of the Princess of Wales, it was immediately recognized as a building of major importance and is today the most complete surviving example of its kind, the great London mansions of the nobility and gentry having largely been demolished. Under the direction of its current occupants, the J. Rothschild group of companies, the house has recently been the object of one of the most ambitious restoration projects to be undertaken this century and the state rooms are now open to the public. In this first in-depth study, Joseph Friedman highlights the unique importance of the building and argues that the great London mansion was no less significant than the country house in shaping the architectural, social and political history of England. He documents the history of Spencer House from its construction to the present day, and examines the revolutionary work of its architects: John Vardy, whose designs for the exterior and ground floor mark the evolution from Palladianism towards a Neo-Classicism inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome, and James 'Athenian' Stuart, who pioneered the use of Greek architectural ornament in the decoration of the first-floor rooms. At a deeper level, the author argues that Spencer House has much to teach us about the all-embracing role of the architect in the eighteenth century, and the importance of symbolism, metaphor and allegory. By tracing the sources of the building's design he sheds new light on the philosophy and methodology of eighteenth-century English architecture, and attitudes towards the art and architecture of the past. The successive owners of the house are chronicled, beginning with a history of the Spencer family, in particular John, 1st Earl Spencer, and culminating in a discussion of the conditions which led to the letting of the house and the eventual sale of the lease to the J. Rothschild group. The survey concludes with a detailed account of the restoration and the ingenious ideas which guaranteed its success. The book is illustrated throughout with sumptuous interiors, architectural drawings and details, portraits and maps.

Spencer House: Chronicle of a Great London Mansion

Friedman, Joseph

This informative study is the most comprehensive in English since Dr. Stevenson's publication of 1921. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations accompanied by explanatory captions make this book invaluable for museum curators, instrument dealers and collectors.

Globes from the Western World

Elly Dekker

Peter van der Krogt

Travel

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