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Architecture without kings : the rise of Puritan classicism under Cromwell

Title
Architecture without kings : the rise of Puritan classicism under Cromwell / Timothy Mowl & Brian Earnshaw.
Author
Mowl, Tim.
Publication
Manchester [Eng.] ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Earnshaw, Brian.
Description
xiv, 240 : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-230) and index.
Contents
The legacy of the Interregnum -- Houses of God in the Puritan years -- Premature burial -- An architect and his clerks -- Coleshill - the house beyond imitation -- Puritan Minimalism and the Restoration anticipated -- The available source-books and their likely impact -- John Webb - the sorcerer's apprentice -- House styles of the Commonwealth elite -- The Cromwellian heartlands and a form achieved -- Classical momentum in Cromwell's London -- A central uncertainty -- Stylistic alternatives in East Anglia -- Cavendish Mannerism in the north -- Idealism and innovation in the west -- Oxford and Cambridge - stylistic divergence -- The gardens of our lost felicitie.
ISBN
  • 0719046785
  • 0719046793 (pbk.)
LCCN
94043001
OCLC
  • 31607879
  • ocm31607879
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries