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Title

The renaissance villa in Britain, 1500-1700 / [edited by] Malcolm Airs and Geoffrey Tyack.

Publication

Reading : Spire Books, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Airs, Malcolm.
• Tyack, Geoffrey.
• University of Oxford. Department for Continuing Education.

Description

276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 26 cm.

Summary

"The alluring ideal of villa life originated in classical antiquity, was revived in Renaissance Italy and then spread throughout Europe, producing new and exciting architectural forms. In this book leading architectural and garden historians trace the phenomenon in Britain for the first time. Through a series of thematic chapters and individual case studies they explain its social background and avhievements. Famous buildings such as Inigo Jones's Queen's House at Greenwich are analysed and reinterpreted, along with lesser-known houses and gardens in the London area, the English provinces, and Scotland. Copiously illustrated, with plentiful plans, the book is a major contribution to the history of domestic architecture and garden design in Britain, and is essential reading for anyone interested in early modern society and the history of the built environment."--

Alternative Title

16th and 17th century villa in Britain.

Subject

• Country homes > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Architecture, Renaissance > Great Britain > Congresses
• Suburban homes > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Architecture > Great Britain > 16th century > Congresses
• Architecture > Great Britain > 17th century > Congresses
• Architecture, Domestic > Great Britain > History
• Country homes > Great Britain > History
• Suburban homes > Great Britain > History
• Architecture, Renaissance > Great Britain
• Architecture, British > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "This volume grew out of a conference sponsored by Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education and held at Rewley House, Oxford, on 5-7 January 2005 under the title of 'The 16th and 17th Century Villa in Britain'"--P. 7.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The English villa : sources, forms and functions / Nicholas Cooper -- 2. A place to 'cultivate the soul' : the idea of the villa in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries / Paula Henderson -- 3. Halls into vestibules / Andor Gomme -- 4. Some later Jacobean villas in Scotland / Charles McKean -- 5. Plain English or Anglo-Palladian? : seventeenth-century country villa plans / Patricia Smith -- 6. Gardens and courtyards of the seventeenth-century villa and smaller house / Sally Jeffery -- 7. The environs of London : the suburban villa as rural retreat / Caroline Knight -- 8. Inigo Jones's designs for the Queen's house in 1616 / Gordon Higgott -- 9. Tart Hall : the Countess of Arundel's 'casino' at Whitehall / Dianne Duggan -- 10. Kew Palace / Lee Prosser and Lucy Worsley -- 11. Country retreats in seventeenth-century Hertfordshire / Paul Hunneyball -- 12. Forty Hall and Tyttenhanger / Elain Harwood -- 13. Winslow Hall / Pete Smith.

ISBN

• 9781904965138
• 190496513X

OCLC

153575950

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library