Elizabethan Architecture
Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
$154.23
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2009
Summary
Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture—the uniquely strange and exciting buildings built by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting—is a phenomenon as remarkable as the literature that accompanied it, the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlow, and others.
In this beautiful and fascinating book, Mark Girouard discusses social structure and the way of life behind it, the evolution of the house plan, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300093865 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300093861 |
| Author: | Mark Girouard |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 3.36kg |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 254mm |
| Series: | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
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Winner of the 2010 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, as given by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
“If you are interested in high Elizabethan–style country houses, this is the book for you.”–Library Journal * Library Journal *
“This wondrous book–written by the preeminent historian of British architecture, and beautifully designed and printed… combines sweeping range and a precise grasp of detail.”–Ben Schwarz, The Atlantic
– Ben Schwarz * The Atlantic *
Winner of the 2010 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, as given by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain – Alice Davis Hitchcock Award * Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain *
“Girouard’s synthesis of his own previous work and the work of other eminent architectural historians makes the book a very useful reference tool, which is bound to become a key source for students of Elizabethan architecture.“—Rebecca Roberts, Cahiers Elisabethains – Rebecca Roberts * Cahiers Elisabethains *
Shortlisted for the 2009 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History presented by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal – William M. B. Berger Prize * Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal *
“As one might well expect from a scholar who has dominated his field for over a half century, [the book] is nothing short of magisterial in its authority and encyclopedic in its range… . Between the bookends of the 1540s and 1630s, this full, gloriously illustrated (even by Yale’s standards), and extensively documented work simply brims with copious examples of virtually every sort of architectural construct characteristic of the chosen era.“—Robert Tittler, Sixteenth Century Journal – Robert Tittler * Sixteenth Century Journal *
About The Author
Mark Girouard
Freelance architectural historian and writer, identified with the best writing and scholarship on English architecture. Author of numerous books.
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