Earls of Creation
Five Great Patrons of 18th Century Art
James Lees-Milne(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 25. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-14-139037-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work offers an insight into the tastes and manners of an age which produced some of England's finest architecture. The five earls featured flourished in the 18th century, when the fashionable amateur exercised a greater influence than ever before in the long history of British art. The five - Burlington, Pembroke, Leicester, Oxford, and Bathurst - were deep-dyed aesthetes and creators of superb domains. The principal country houses which they designed - Chiswick house, Holkham Hall, Wimpole Hall, York Assembly Rooms, Wilton House, Marble Hill, and Cirencester Park - are almost all standing today and the landscape gardens which they laid out still amount to some of England's greatest treasure.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-139037-6 (9780141390376)
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Content
Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775); Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (1693-1750); Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753); Edward Healey, 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741); Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759).