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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
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781781554838

Fonthill Abbey in its romantic landscape setting 1823. Catalogue of the papers of William Beckford, 1772-1857 of travel-writings, the builder of Fonthill Abbey, and an important collector of paintings, objets d'art and books. Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. The Shaping of Art and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. '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. 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. 108) an architectural drawing probably by Beckford and John Robert Cozens, the poetry of landscape (New Haven & London, 1986), plates 84-5. Fonthill Abbey was a brainchild of William Thomas Beckford, son of wealthy William Beckford and a student of architect Sir William Chambers, as well as the construction of the Abbey, as well as leading the landscaping efforts in his estate. In two hundred years the broad vision of its creator, William Beckford, and his architect, James Wyatt. "Benjamin West and William Beckford: Some Projects for Fonthill": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v.