- Gebundene Ausgabe: 516 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale University Press (25. September 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0300093861
- ISBN-13: 978-0300093865
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 30,3 x 25,5 x 4,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 426.936 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"As one might well expect from a scholar who has dominated his field for over a half century, [the book] is nothing short of magisterial in its authority and encyclopedic in its range. . . . Between the bookends of the 1540s and 1630s, this full, gloriously illustrated (even by Yale's standards), and extensively documented work simply brims with copious examples of virtually every sort of architectural construct characteristic of the chosen era."--Robert Tittler, "Sixteenth Century Journal"--Robert Tittler "Sixteenth Century Journal "
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Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting - is a phenomenon as remarkable as the literature which accompanied it, the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlow, Jonson, Campion and others. Forty years after adventuring into this world in his first book, Robert Smythson, in which he discussed one family of mason-architects and the great houses with which they were connected, Mark Girouard has returned to the subject to cover the whole rich field in detail.In this beautiful and fascinating book, Girouard discusses social structure and the way of life behind it, the evolution of the house plan, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and craftsmen as they learnt about the classic Five Orders and the buildings of Ancient Rome from publications and engravings, the surprising wealth of architectural drawings which survive from the period, the inroads of foreign craftsmen who brought new fashions in ornament with them, but also the strength of the native tradition which was creatively integrated with the 'antique' style. Behind the book is a vivid consciousness of the European scene, and the different ways in which different countries reacted to new influences yet did not abandon their native traditions.Italy, France, central Europe and above all the Low Countries provide the background, and England was influenced by all of them; but the principal argument of the book is the individuality of the English achievement. Girouard's pioneering work on Elizabethan architecture, then an unfashionable period, has helped inspire an increasing number of architectural historians to venture into the field. His new book benefits from their researches and publications, but is essentially a product of new research and travel on his part. The results are displayed with his own unique sense of style, and are fired by the excitement which the architecture of the period still generates in him.
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A Magnificent Achievement
14. März 2010
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This is a wonderful book and a bargain. The photographs are extraordinary; they include Thomas Pakenham's pictures of Longleat--Pakenam's Meetings with Remarkable Trees (Cassell Illustrated Classics) is a classic of nature photography--and work by many other outstanding photographers. The buildings are shown in all states and occupancies, from small boys packed into the school dining-room at Gilling Castle in Yorkshire to the tiny image of an old couple seen walking past Lyvedon New Bield, a ruin in Northamptonshire. Old drawings have been beautifully reproduced by the Yale printers: we can see all the detail of some wild looking Bosch-like ornamental figures on a Jacobean triumphal arch, for example. Newly-drawn plans of houses are all at the same scale, which makes comparison easy. As for the writing, here is a random passage that's typical of Girouard's style (p. 287):
An advantage of bay windows as far as interiors were concerned was that they provided little rooms within rooms, which could be retired into for private conversations. Francis Bacon may have had reservations about excessive glazing as a conductor of heat and cold, but he commented that 'For Inbowed windowes, I hold them of good use ... For they bee Prettie Retiring Places for Conference'. Gilbert Talbot, in another letter, describes how he and his father retired into a window to talk in privacy, and when the government official Sir Henry Bronker was sent up to Hardwick in 1603, to sound out Arrabelle Stuart's desparate and unsuitable plots to find a husband, and (as he describes it) he took her to the other end of the gallery to talk to her away from Bess of Hardwick, one can surmise that they would have withdrawn also into one of the two great bays letting off the main gallery, for additional protection from her grandmother's beady eyes.
I've no doubt that this will become the standard work on Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture. It's provided inspiration for me as an architect and I've enjoyed Girouard's writing. As Colin Amery said in The Spectator, "Mark Girouard is our greatest architectural writer and historian and this is his best book -- a sumptuous treat"
An advantage of bay windows as far as interiors were concerned was that they provided little rooms within rooms, which could be retired into for private conversations. Francis Bacon may have had reservations about excessive glazing as a conductor of heat and cold, but he commented that 'For Inbowed windowes, I hold them of good use ... For they bee Prettie Retiring Places for Conference'. Gilbert Talbot, in another letter, describes how he and his father retired into a window to talk in privacy, and when the government official Sir Henry Bronker was sent up to Hardwick in 1603, to sound out Arrabelle Stuart's desparate and unsuitable plots to find a husband, and (as he describes it) he took her to the other end of the gallery to talk to her away from Bess of Hardwick, one can surmise that they would have withdrawn also into one of the two great bays letting off the main gallery, for additional protection from her grandmother's beady eyes.
I've no doubt that this will become the standard work on Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture. It's provided inspiration for me as an architect and I've enjoyed Girouard's writing. As Colin Amery said in The Spectator, "Mark Girouard is our greatest architectural writer and historian and this is his best book -- a sumptuous treat"
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