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English Baroque COMMONWEALTH of AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 702132/702835 European Architecture B English Baroque COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 Warning This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of the University of Melbourne pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. do not remove this notice thethe EnglishEnglish BaroqueBaroque vv thethe PalladianPalladian RevivalRevival Christopher Wren Colen Campbell Nicholas Hawksmoor Lord Burlington John Vanbrugh William Kent James Gibbs James Flitcroft TALMANTALMAN && ARCHERARCHER Versailles, park front, in a contemporary painting MUAS 11,461 Chatsworth, south front with the water parterre and Emperor Fountain commercial slide CH 7 Chatsworth, east front by Talman, 1693, with cascade Miles Lewis St John's, Smith Square, by Thomas Archer, 1714-1728 Miles Lewis St John's, Smith Square, details Miles Lewis St John's, Smith Square, details Miles Lewis St John's, Smith Square, tower; St Paul's Cathedral, London, by Christopher Wren, 1675-1710, detail of west towers Miles Lewis, 14,986 NICHOLASNICHOLAS HAWKSMOORHAWKSMOOR St Vedast, Foster Lane, 1670-3: steeple 1694-7 Miles Lewis Downes, Christopher Wren, p 174 Steeple of St James's, Garlickhythe, by Wren's office, probably Hawksmoor, 1714-1717, and project for the steeple of St Augustine, Watling Street, by Hawksmoor, early 1690s Downes, Hawksmoor, pp 60, 30 Design for the Provost's house, King's College, Cambridge, by Hawksmoor, 1712-13 Downes, Hawksmoor, p 81 St Alfege, Greenwich, by Hawksmoor, 1712-1714, steeple by John James, 1730 from a postcard St Alfege: detail of the east end, and view of the west end Miles Lewis; MUAS 24,070 St Alfege: north elevation as designed Downes, Hawksmoor, p 111 St George-in-the-East, Wapping Stepney, by Hawksmoor, 1714-1717: original design for the west front, c 1714, & subsequent west tower Downes, Hawksmoor, p 116; Pierre du Prey, Hawksmoor's London Churches (Chicago 2000), p 91 St George-in-the-East, south-east & north-east views Miles Lewis St George-in-the-East tower & south-west door case MUAS 24,473; Miles Lewis St Anne, Limehouse, by Hawksmoor, 1714-1730: steeple, MUAS 24,472; Miles Lewis St Anne, view from the south-west Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 124 Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, by Hawksmoor, 1714-1729 MUAS 24,474; Country Life, 14 November 1974, p 1426 St George, Bloomsbury, London, by Hawksmoor, 1716-27 Miles Lewis; MUAS 2,224 St George, Bloomsbury, London, by Hawksmoor, 1716- 27: portico Miles Lewis St George, Bloomsbury & St Mary Woolnoth, interiors MUAS 4,443; Ruffinière, Hawksmoor's London Churches, p 109, fig 60 St Mary Woolnoth, by Hawksmoor, 1716-1727: View, and niche on the north side MUAS 2,223; Downes, Hawksmoor, p 119 SIRSIR JOHNJOHN VANBRUGHVANBRUGH Goose Pie House, Whitehall, by John Vanbrugh, 1700-1, side wings added 1719 Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 111 Castle Howard, Yorkshire, by John Vanbrugh, 1699-1712 Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 114 Greenwich Hospital first plan Whinney, Wren, p 189 Castle Howard: plan MUAS 2,013 Castle Howard: south or park front Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 128A Castle Howard, views Brian & Hilary Lewis Castle Howard, Temple of the Four Winds, by Vanbrugh, 1724-6 Mark Girouard, Historic Houses of Great Britain (London 1984 [1979]), p 72 Castle Howard, the Pyramid, by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, 1728 Downes, Hawksmoor, p 193 Castle Howard, the Mausoleum, begun 1729, by Hawksmoor: view with the house in the distance, in a painting by Hendrik de Cort from a postcard 'Periptère', from Perrault's Vitruvius, 1673 Mausoleum, Castle Howard Downes, Hawksmoor, p 172 Mausoleum, Castle Howard; 'Temple of Vesta', Rome, AD 205, half elevation / section, by Palladio Downes, Hawksmoor, p 172 ; Andrea Palladio [ed Isaac Ware], The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture (London 1738) IV, pl XXXV The Belvedere, Claremont, Esher, Surrey, by Vanbrugh, c 1715-16; Vanbrugh Castle, Greenwich, by Vanbrugh, 1717 George Mott & S S Aall, Follies and Pleasure Pavilions (London 1989), p 46; Miles Lewis Vanbrugh Castle: plan & view Nikolaus Pevsner, Studies in Art, Architecture and Design, I (London 1968), p 111; Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 140A Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, by Vanbrugh, 1720-9: north front Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus (2 vols, London 1715 & 1717), I, p 20 Design for the Provost's house, King's College, Cambridge, by Hawksmoor, 1712-13 Downes, Hawksmoor, p 81 Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, by Vanbrugh, 1720-9: views from the north Rickitt Encyclopedia, nos 33734. 33736 Seaton Delaval: plan Rickitt Encyclopedia no 33733 BLENHEIMBLENHEIM PALACEPALACE Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by Sir John Vanbrugh, 1705-24: Hensington Gate, probably by Hawksmoor, originally in the east garden Miles Lewis Blenheim Palace: side approach from the Hensington Gate Miles Lewis Blenheim, east gate of the kitchen court, by Vanbrugh Miles Lewis Blenheim, Grand Bridge: Vanbrugh's design c 1708, and as built Blenheim Park and Gardens, p 10; MUAS 24,469 Blenheim the bridge and the house MUAS 22,635; Miles Lewis Blenheim: aerial view Edward Hyams, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton (London 1971), pl 5 Blenheim, the south front Miles Lewis Blenheim angled views Miles Lewis Blenheim: plan MUAS 2,104 Castle Howard: plan MUAS 2,013 Blenheim the great court and entrance portico Miles Lewis Blenheim: the east gate and tower to the courtyard Miles Lewis Blenheim the east side of the great court Miles Lewis Blenheim: tops of the west towers of the main block Miles Lewis Blenheim, north tower of west front Miles Lewis Blenheim: west (south-west) front Miles Lewis Seaton Delaval, by Vanbrugh, 1720-9: elevation Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus (2 vols, London 1715 & 1717), I, p 20 Blenheim, the Woodstock Gate, by Hawksmoor, 1722-3 Downes, Hawksmoor, p 181 Under this stone, reader, survey Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay Lie heavy on him Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee Abel Evans JAMESJAMES GIBBSGIBBS St Mary-le-Strand, London, by James Gibbs, 1714-17: in a view of the Strand Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 171A. St Mary-le-Strand: from the west & interior Miles Lewis; Bryan Little, The Life and Works of James Gibbs, 1682-1759 (London 1955), pl 3 St Mary-le-Strand from the south-east Miles Lewis Palazzo Branconio dall' Aquila, by Raphael, 1516-17 (demolished C17th) Murray, Italian Renaissance, p 147 St Mary-le-Strand; Sta Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656-7 Little, Life and Works of Gibbs, pl 2; Scala 9170 (1973) St Mary-le-Strand, west front & five other designs for the steeple Miles Lewis; James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments (London 1739), pl 31 St Clement Danes: design for the steeple, by Gibbs, 1719 Gibbs, Book of Architecture, pl 28 St Martin-in-the- Fields, round design, by Gibbs, c 1720-1721 section & plan Gibbs, Book of Architecture, pl 71 St Martin-in-the-Fields: rectangular plan, as built Little, Life and Works of Gibbs, p 73 St Martin-in-the-Fields: contemporary interior view Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 146B St Martin-in-the-Fields: interior Miles Lewis St Martin-in-the-Fields Miles Lewis St Martin-in-the-Fields: designs for the steeple Little, Life and Works of Gibbs, pls 9, pl 29 St Martin-in- the-Fields Miles Lewis Chichely Hall, Buckinghamshire, by Francis Smith, 1719-23: an early scheme Marcus Binney, 'Chichely Hall, Buckinghamshire - I', Country Life, CLVII, 4050 (13 February 1975), p 380 Chichely elevation of a further scheme as built Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 380 Chichely; Schloss Flesheim, near Salzburg, first project by Fischer von Erlach Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 380 J B Fischer von Erlach, Historischen Architektur, 1721 Chapel of the Holy Crucifix, Chichely Hall: main entrance Vatican, by Bernini Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 Palazzo del Grillo, Rome, Chichely Hall: window entrance by Carlo Rainaldi Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 doorcase, Oratory of S Filippo Chichely Hall: garden door Neri, Rome, by Borromini, 1637-52 Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 Binney, 'Chichely Hall', p 381 Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, by Borromini, 1637-49 engraving & view of the façade Blunt, Borromini, p 97; Margaret Monk, 1985 .
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