Classical architecture in Britain : the Heroic Age / Giles Worsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worsley, Giles.

Contributor:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580--Influence.

Palladio, Andrea.

Classicism in architecture--Great Britain.

Classicism in architecture.

Architecture--Great Britain--17th century.

Architecture.

Architecture--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Architecture--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c1995.

Contents:

I. No Lonely Genius: Inigo Jones and His Contemporaries

II. Post-Restoration Palladianism

III. Neo-Classicism from Jones to Hawksmoor

IV. Late Seventeenth-century Architecture and the Baroque Interlude

V. Removing the Palladian Straight-jacket

VI. Towards the Establishment of a Neo-Palladian Style

VII. Palladian Neo-Classicism

VIII. Palladianism on the Peripheries: Scotland, Ireland and the Americas before 1748

IX. The Continuing Gothic Tradition

X. The Palladian Interior and the Importance of Garden Buildings

XI. The Palladian Ascendancy

XII. Adam, 'Movement' and Neo-Classicism

XIII. Palladianism on the Peripheries: Scotland, Ireland and the Americas after 1748

XIV. The End of Palladian Primacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-329) and index.

ISBN:

0300058969