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This Is the South Front of Wilton House WESSEX LOCKDOWN QUIZ NO. 4a Our thanks to Christopher Rogers for putting this quiz together Question 1: The Kennet and Swindon branch of the Arts Soicety meets at the Ellendune Centre, Wroughton, just south of Swindon. What is the origin of the name Ellendune? Why is it so important in the history of southern England Question 2: This is the south front of Wilton House. Who are the recumbent figures above the window? • Ceres and Bacchus • Castor and Pollux • Hero and Leander Question 3: The portrait of a famous architect Who is the architect shown? By whom was the portrait painted? • Peter Paul Rubens • Anthony Van Dyck • Mary Beale 1 Question 4: The portrait by Jonathan Richardson is of an accomplished gentleman architect. Who is he? • The Earl of Shaftesbury • The Earl of Burlington • The Earl of Pembroke What is the building in the background? Question 5: This fine white marble monument is in Clyffe Pypard church It is of Thomas Spackman. Why is he the local lad made good’? Why should the villagers of Clyffe Pypard be grateful to him? 2 Question 6: Here are three monuments in Salisbury Cathedral. Add the correct name to each: • Edmund Audley • Lord Hungerford • Bishop Beauchamp • Lord Cheney • William Longspee a…………………………… . b…………………………… c……………………………… 3 Question 7: Question. 9: Here are three ‘Palladian ’ bridges built to adorn landscape parks . Where are these three found? Which is the first bridge built of which the other two are copies? Question 8: Two more bridges within the London area. What have the two bridges in common? What connection is there between the bridge in the upper picture and Wilton House 4 Question 9: This is a fine sofa made by William Kent in the early 18th century? Who is portrayed in the centre of the backrest? What is the name of the leaf seen in the centre of the underseat. Question 10: This is a lady’s ‘bonheur du jour’ made for Elizabeth Countess of Pembroke What is a ‘bonheur du jour’? What is the connection between this item of furniture and King George III? 5 Question 11: Here are two of the finest pieces of furniture made during the 18th century. What is there in common between them? 6 Question 12: This is the ceiling in the drawing room at Osterley House. What is the connection between this ceiling and recent events in Syria? Question 13: Two interiors designed by the same architect. • Who might that have been? • What is unusual about them? Question 14: 7 This is the west window in Saint Peter’s church Marlborough. Identify the five saints from left to right. a. b. c. d. a b c d e Question 15: This is the Saint Cecilia window in Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford. Who designed the window? Who was Saint Cecilia? What is the instrument she is playing? 8 Question 16: This window, called the Vyner window, is also in Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford. What connection does this window have to Albania? Question 17: Two images associated with the lives of the four saints shown in the Vyner window. 9 • At whose knees is the young Timothy standing? • Who is about to be slain by David? Question 18: This is a watercolour of Old Sarum, just north of Salisbury. Who painted this, and what connection had he with Salisbury? Question 19: The pictures show a ruined castle in west Wiltshire and a house in the close in Salisbury. What is the connection between the two buildings? Who was the most celebrated resident of the house shown in the lower picture? Question 20: 10 This is Fonthill Abbey near Tisbury. • Who was the architect? • For whom was this enormous building commissioned? • Why might he now be considered as ‘controversial? Question 21: Which ancient buildings in Athens was the inspiration for these two buildings? Why should the buildings, including the original, be eight-sided? Question 22: 11 An Experiment with a Bird and an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby? What connection is there between this picture and Bowood House, Wiltshire? Question 23: Which great English landscape architect is associated with these two landscapes? • William Kent • Lancelot Brown • Humphrey Repton 12 Croome Court Worcs. Bowood, Wiltshire Question 24: Two 18th century grottoes. Which mythic al figures are represented here? 13 Croome Court Stourhead Question 25: Which 19th century luminary is shown in his bath tub!? Who sketched this? 14 Question 26: Here are three famous wallpaper designs printed by Morris and Co, and designed by William Morris. Can you name the three? a…………………………………………. b……………………………………………………. c…………………………………………… 15 WESSEX LOCKDOWN ARTS QUIZ Our thanks to Christophr Rogers, Arts Society accredited lecturer, for creating this quiz. ANSWERS for Quiz 4 Q1: Ellendune: Battle of Ellendun (e) Fought near Wroughton in AD825, when the Saxon King Egbert defeated the Mercian army led by their King Beornwolf. This battle ended thr supremacy of the Mercians in southern England Q2: Ceres and Bacchus, god and goddess associated with food and drink.( I.e. of plenty and feasting and conviviality.) Q3: Inigo Jones painted by Sir Anthony Van Dyck Q4: The Earl of Burlington, who popularized Palladianism in Great Britain. he built the iconic Chiswick House as a Palladian villa. the building in the background is the 'bagnio' or bathhouse which he built at Chiswick. Sadly it has long gone. Q5: A local lad who trained as a carpenter and became a hugely successful builder in London in the second half of the 18th century. Under the terms of his will he left £1000 to pay for a master to teach the poor children of the parish. (Huge sum of money in those days ) Local lad 'done good'! Q6: a) William Longspee b) Bishop Beauchamp c) Lord Hungerford Q7: The three 'Palladian 'bridges are Wilton House (top) Stowe (bottom) and c) Prior Park, Bath (bottom left) Q8: Both paintings are by Canaletto during his English visit. The bridges are the new Westminster Bridge (top) and a bridge over the Thames at Walton on Thames. (bottom) the Westminster Bridge was designed by the 9th Earl of Pembroke, of Wilton House. Known to have been an accomplished gentleman architect and friend of Lord Burlington. www.theartssociety-wessex.org WESSEX LOCKDOWN ARTS QUIZ Q9: the Hall sofa was made by William Kent. (Six of these are at Wilton.) Diana is shown on the top (note the crescent moon over her head) and the large leaf is an acanthus leaf, used extensively in Roman architecture in the 1st to 4th centuries. Q10: Made for Elizabeth wife of the 10th Earl of Pembroke and lady in waiting to Queen Caroline. She was a close 'friend' of the King, who gave her this piece of furniture after his recovery from his illness. Q11: Thomas Chippendale of course. The bookcase is at Wilton and the superb sideboard is at where the young Chippendale was a carpenter. Q12: The ceiling octagonal carpartments or mosaics are copied from The Ruins of Palmyra, a book published by Robert Wood in 1762 and hugely popular. Much of the Palmyra (in modern Syria) site was destroyed by ISIS Q13: Robert Adam. Known as Bob the Roman his work is normally associated with the revival of classical Rome. Here (top) he is providing a 'gothick' interior for the church at Croome Court Worcs. where he was doing the interiors, while the lower picture is of the circular dining room at Strawberry Hill and was made for Horace Walpole who required something 'in the gothick style) . Q14: Matthew John (with the chalice) Peter (with the keys), Luke and Mark with a scene of mark preaching to the Egyptians below him) Q15: Edward Burne-Jones was the designer. Cecilia is patron saint of music, hence she is usually seen holding a portative organ. According to the story, despite her vow of virginity, she was forced by her parents to marry a pagan nobleman named Valerian. During the wedding, Cecilia sat apart singing to God in her heart, and for that she was later declared the saint of musicians. www.theartssociety-wessex.org WESSEX LOCKDOWN ARTS QUIZ Q16: Frederick Vyner was the son of a wealthy Yorkshire landowner and undergraduate of Christechurch. In 1870 he was abducted by brigands in northern Albania. A ransom was provided but, having taken the ransom, the brigands the murdered him. Poor sport. Q17: Timothy is seated at the feet of his mother Eunice. David is seen in the act of slaying Goiliath Q18: John Constable. He was a regular visitor to Salisbury from 1811. He stayed in the Close with a lifelong friend John Fisher who was Archdeacon and Canon of Sarum Q19: Wardour Castle (technically Old Wardour) and Arundells in the Close at Salisbury. The Arundell family had lived at Wardour from the mid 16th century. The castle was ruined in the English Civil War and eventually Lord Arundell of Wardour built a huge Palladian house, known today as New Wardour. Like many other 'gentry of the Close' the Arundells had a townhouse in Salisbury known as Arundells. (the Mompessons and the Wyndhams likewise) Sir Edward Heath was the most famous occupant. Q20: Fonthill Abbey was built by James Wyatt for William Beckford. The latter was one of the richest men in England, his father being a merchant in London and Lord Mayor. Being rich and eccentric led to the building of this pile. The family money came from sugar estates in the West Indies and hence he is associated with slaverey. The tower collapsed in 1826, by which time Beckford's fortune had also collapsed. Q21: The Tower of the Winds or Horologion in Athens.
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