Earls of Creation: Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art: Five Great Patrons of 18th Century Art (Penguin Classic Biography S.) - Softcover

Lees-Milne, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141390379 ISBN 13: 9780141390376

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

The five Earls who are the subject of this delightful book 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 of them - 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 little altered, and the collections they assembled and the landscape gardens which they laid out still amount to some of England's greatest treasure.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

James Lees-Milne is a distinguished architectural historian and biographer

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141390379
• ISBN 13: 9780141390376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320