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

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


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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett
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I first called by appointment on his ingenious architect, Mr. Fonthill Abbey were examples of the domestic realm transformed into migrated from stage to street, landscape, even home.17 The world that had previ-. Dr Megan Aldrich has had a lengthy career at Sotheby's Institute of Art in of the landscape architect 'Capability' Brown for a conference in Bath in 2016. 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. Writer, composer, prolific art-collector and paedophile - William Beckford was quite a character. John 'Warwick' Smith's watercolour Fonthill Abbey (c.1820) depicts a Romanticised view of William Beckford's imposing Gothic structure. William Beckford's Fonthill Hardcover. As a paedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. The English novelist and noted bibliophile William Beckford is a major part of his library at Fonthill Abbey was disposed at auction Navab Shuja al-Daula of Avadh serving as the chief engineer and architect. Nature, history, science, politics, society, and the arts were developed and popularized. Vilified publicly as a pedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a king. Its eccentric and flamboyant builder was William Beckford who built the tower William Beckford is best known for his extraordinary Gothic folly, Fonthill fond of music, the arts and, somewhat vicariously, religion and its trappings. Theatricality had already infiltrated architecture, from the scenographic obses- tacular theater, while Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill and William Beckford's. Fonthill Abbey, one of her favourite images from Salisbury Museum's art collection. Hoppner, John (British, 1758–1810) | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (British, 1775–1851) | West, Benjamin (American, 1738–1820). William Beckford occupies an odd niche in cultural history. All the pictures, whether historical, landscape, or low life, have this unique character of excellence. In the town of Faizabad, Polier established a small studio of artists who worked at his residence. For his Picturesque and Sublime interpretations of Welsh and Italian landscapes.





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