Research Catalog

Title

The Baroque villa : suburban and country residences c. 1600-1800 / edited by Barbara Arciszewska.

Publication

[Wilanów] : Wilanów Palace Museum, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Arciszewska, Barbara, 1962-

Description

xxiv, 273 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 31 cm

Subjects

• Architecture, Baroque > Europe > Congresses
• Country homes > Europe > Congresses
• Architecture, Domestic > Europe > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers from an international symposium held in Wilanów Palace Museum in October 2007.
• Some articles appear in translation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xviii) and index.

Contents

• Preface / Paweł Jaskanis -- Introduction : the Baroque villa : probing the paradox / Barbara Arciszewska -- Villeggiatura in Poland : from early publications to recent research / Juliusz A. Chrościcki -- According to Polish air and custom / Joseph Rykwert -- The Baroque villa : the Classical versus non-Classical. At the boundaries of Classical architecture : the gate in seventeenth-century architecture in northern Europe / Caroline van Eck ; The illusions of Marly / Gérard Sabatier ; Dutch Arcadia : Amsterdam and villa culture / Freek Schmidt ; Tsarskoe Selo : Villa Hadriana and its legacy in the north / Marcus Köhler -- The Baroque villa : patronage and function : between otium and negotium. Villa Borghese in Rome : the forgotten coexistence of an open air museum and productive farm estate / Alberta Campitelli ; Seventeenth-century country seats of the Orange court and their influence abroad / Konrad Ottenheym ; The Villa Pamphili as instrument of social strategy / Ralph-Miklas Dobler ; Jan III Sobieski's Villa Nova and its artistic programme / Wojciech Fijałkowski ; The ordinary magnificence of Polish and Venetian villas : the case of Angelo Morosini / Martina Frank ; The Baroque villa of Canon Antonio Pontons in Valencia / Pablo González Tornel ; "In any velvet that is much used there will always be the print of people's sitting " : the decorating of Lord Burlington's house at Chiswick, 1729-1740 / Treve Rosoman ; Between art and politics : Wilanów in the time of Elżbieta Sieniawska née Lubomirska, 1720-1729 / Rafał Nestorow.
• The Baroque villa : urban, suburban, rural in early modern Europe. Camille de Neufville's alternative villa models : ultramontanism in provincial France, c. 1630-1693 / Judi Loach ; The Habsburg country residences around Vienna in the seventeenth century and their relationship to the Hofburg Palace / Herbert Karner ; The suburban villa tradition in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London / Elizabeth McKellar ; Traditions of Russian Usad'ba and Russian Verseilles in foreign accounts of early St. Petersburg / Inessa Svirida -- The Baroque villa : architecture and its reception. Tunnel views and engaging statues : the manipulation of the viewer's gaze in Italian villa design / Lex Hermans ; At once national and international : John Webb and the 1650s English country house / Kimberley Skelton ; "You wouldn't want to swap it for our villa" : the Villa Patrizi and the Villa Catena in the reign of Innocent XIII / David R. Marshall ; Movement, experience, architectural space and domestic practice in the eighteenth-century house / Joseph Connors.

ISBN

• 8360959765
• 9788360959763

LCCN

2010410308

OCLC

• ocn436262332
• 436262332
• SCSB-1538822

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library