A Subject for Taste: Culture in Eighteenth-century EnglandHambledon and London, 2005 - 272 من الصفحات In the eighteenth century England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. From being a country divided by religious and political conflict, and in the shadow of France, England and the English became confident and self-assured. A Question for Taste is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers, from Swift and Pope to Dr Johnson and Sheridan, or of artists from Hogarth to Reynolds, there was also room for popular ballads, political doggerel, pornographic verse and vigorous satirical cartoons. Taste in architecture ranged from great houses with gardens landscaped by Capability Brown to the changed use of domestic space in towns. Jeremy Black looks at the both the wealth of cultural activity in the period and at the changing patronage of and market for books, art, architecture, music and consumer goods. |
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... included niches containing ten - foot - high Italian statues representing the Virtues . Although the planning of Castle Howard and Blenheim may have been Vanbrugh's , the execution , supervision and detailing , however , were Nicholas ...
... included niches containing ten - foot - high Italian statues representing the Virtues . Although the planning of Castle Howard and Blenheim may have been Vanbrugh's , the execution , supervision and detailing , however , were Nicholas ...
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... included . Boughton House in the late seventeenth century , and in the new cen- tury Beningbrough , the 1720s work on Wentworth Woodhouse , and the east façade of Wentworth Castle . In contrast to the heaviness of Vanbrugh's ...
... included . Boughton House in the late seventeenth century , and in the new cen- tury Beningbrough , the 1720s work on Wentworth Woodhouse , and the east façade of Wentworth Castle . In contrast to the heaviness of Vanbrugh's ...
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... included straight alleys converging on a round - point.36 The aerial perspective plan for Castle Howard in Vitruvius Britannicus included two obelisks and a temple - style structure in the grounds ; in the event one obelisk was erected ...
... included straight alleys converging on a round - point.36 The aerial perspective plan for Castle Howard in Vitruvius Britannicus included two obelisks and a temple - style structure in the grounds ; in the event one obelisk was erected ...
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Home and Abroad | 211 |
Notes | 237 |
Selected Further Reading | 259 |
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