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palladio: when it was glib
The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fir few of the formulas… …But eighteenth-century England, unlike France, extolled grandeur at the expense of comfort. One of the reasons why the British feel so … Continue reading
glories of ownership
The noble houses of eighteenth century England… …For these rooms no expense was spared. The finest plaster workers were brought in from Italy; tons of mahogany and other rare woods were imported from the East and West Indies; gold leaf … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, Andrew Mellon art collection, Catherine of Russia, David Allan painter Scotland, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Houghton Hall England, Lord Sandys, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Adam Architect, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Beckford, Sir Robert Walpole, Surgeon William inglis, Syon House, Vanbrugh estates England, William Kent Architect
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adam : jacobite gardens
Robert Adam, the greatest architect of eighteenth-century England, spent as much care on the interiors and furnishings as on the outside walls of the buildings he designed. His sense of classical elegance was shaped in Italy by his study of … Continue reading
pink
Robert Adam’s triumph, the most exquisite room in all England, is the Pink Room at Osterley Park in Middlesex. The tapestries were woven to Adam’s order by Jacques Neilson, director of the Gobelin works in Paris. On the walls, large … Continue reading
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Tagged Gobelin works Paris, Horace Walpole, Jacques Neilson Gobelin works Paris, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Jacques flower painter, Osterley Park Middlesex, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Adam Osterley Park
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land equaled power
Nowhere were the changes from barbarism to sophistication so clearly mirrored as in the houses, the furniture, the clothes, the style of life of the rich. By 1750 the Western world had captured a vast commerce unequaled in history and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, Christopher Wren, George Morland paintings, James Boswell, John Wootton paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Adam Architect, Sir Robert Walpole, William Kent Architect
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its got rhythm
In his angular forms and ardent theories a profession searching for prophets seemed to have found a new vision. … With good reason, people seldom look twice at the random piles of brick, steel, and concrete that stand along our … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Howe architect, Louis Kahn, Louis Kahn architect, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Kahn, Oscar Stonarov, Paul Cret architect, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Adam Roman phantasy
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POMPEII: Dangerously Low Necklines
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.O. Lovejoy, Beau Brummell, Boily, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Boas, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Keats, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Max Beerbohm, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Cosway, Robert Adam Architect, Roger Sandall, Sir Kenneth Clark
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POMPEII: Adam and Adamesque
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. , the ensuing earthquake and volcanic ash buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum until their rediscovery in the eighteenth century. When the ruins came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Greville, Edith Piaf, Emma Hamilton, Giambattista Piranesi, Horace Walpole, James Adam architect, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgwood, Karl Weber Pompeii, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Robert Adam Architect, Sir William Hamilton, Syon House, William Beckford
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PASSION FOR POMPEII: “RANDY FOR ANTIQUE”
It was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Pompeii. When the ruins came to light, beginning in 1747, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure , and leaving a deposit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Benjamin West, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Greville, Christopher C. Parslow, Claude Lorrain, Dr. Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eleanor Coade, Emma Hamilton, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Goethe, Goethe Italy, Horace Walpole, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, John Flaxman, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgewood, Josiah Wedgwood, Judith Harris, Karl Weber Pompeii, Lord Nelson, Matthew Boulton, Nicolas Poussin, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Richard West, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Fulford, Sir William Hamilton, The Grand Tour, Thomas Gray, William S. Anderson
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