Author: Warburg Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
Author: Books Added
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
The Art Gallery
Author: V.1-9, No.7; Mar. 1961-Sept. 1969, International Art Market
Author: International Art Market and Art & Auctions
Author: Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description