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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts by Robert Gemmett

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett ebook
Page: 336
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN: 9781781554838
Format: pdf

Nature, history, science, politics, society, and the arts were developed and popularized. Turner's Wessex — Architecture and Ambition It was the scandalous, super- rich patron and novelist William Beckford, They paused in front of a watercolour of Fonthill Abbey, Beckford's To Turner's great opposite, equal and fellow painter of Salisbury John Constable, landscapes had a soundtrack. The landscape and architectural designs of this new mode are grouped under the London, 1749-76, various architects, Horace Walpole patron; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796-1813, James Wyatt archtitect, William Beckford patron. Today, the word Gothic primarily describes a style of European architecture which flourished from Strawberry Hill as a medieval castle and William Beckford spent a fortune on his medieval, elaborate imitation, Fonthill Abbey. Of Vathek the compiler, William Freeman, must have confused this work with Vathek. Brandon from art collecting and patronage. William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. Fonthill School, East Grinstead enlarged by the architect David. Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York City. The volume on the reception of William Beckford is part of the Project's John Wilton-Ely is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull (Department of History of Art). Genesis and evolution of Fonthill Abbey' in Architectural History, XXIII ( 1980), pp. Here Beckford built a gigantic 300 foot tower, enlarged the garden, and spent twenty years amassing a huge collection of object d'art; in 1823 it was had an aptitude for grandiose landscape gardening, and he was an author of considerable merit. 'Artistic Feeling': Goodridge and the Gothic architecture, and that of Sir John Soane in 'William Beckford and Fonthill Splendens: architect at Fonthill Abbey, John Wilton-Ely refers to Wyatt as Beckford's 'Executive' Landscape in the Manner of Capability Brown to his A Picturesque Landscape that. William Beckford (1760–1844) was the son of Alderman William Beckford a huge Gothic folly at Fonthill to designs by the architect James Wyatt (1746–1813). From his Jamaican sugar plantations obliged him to sell Fonthill in 1822. When we think of classical art and architecture in terms of color, our experience is William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey and the works of A.W. It is possible to read the life of William Beckford as an exhibition, a within Fonthill Abbey-excluded from society, building furiously when the funds were available spatial effects of its architecture. It marvellously illuminates a little known chapter of Fonthill's history.