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Author : Jon Millington
Publisher : Stripes Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781898954903
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Beckfords Tower Bath written by Jon Millington and published by Stripes Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Millington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898954996
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (549 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated Guide written by Jon Millington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350452
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Author : William Beckford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Vathek, an Arabian Tale written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lizzie Alldridge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385445248
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Tower Gardens. A Novel written by Lizzie Alldridge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018289373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book The History of the Caliph Vathek / by William Beckford written by William Beckford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Derek E. Ostergard
Publisher : Bard Center
ISBN 13 : 9780300090680
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book William Beckford, 1760-1844 written by Derek E. Ostergard and published by Bard Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British collector William Beckford helped to define many of the parameters of 19th-century collecting. This text describes his flamboyant personality & unconventional life & discusses fine works of art that were once part of his legendary collection.
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents written by William Beckford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" by William Beckford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Franny Moyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073522093X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Turner written by Franny Moyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist. Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime, he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embarked upon a new moment of Imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral. Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron’s footsteps through the Rhine country. While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death. Turner's late, impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as example of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist’s work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner’s reputation, but Turner’s very last works confounded even his greatest defender. TURNER humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.
Author : John Jeremiah Daniell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Warminster written by John Jeremiah Daniell and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Cundall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historic Jamaica written by Frank Cundall and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roz Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909905924
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Not Quite Lost written by Roz Morris and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on BBC radio For Bill Bryson fans. An eccentric couple take the road less travelled through the English countryside and meet lovelorn tourist guides, pushy shopkeepers, ESP students, immortality seekers and weary bodyguards. Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk,
Author : James S. Donnelly, Jr
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299233138
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Captain Rock written by James S. Donnelly, Jr and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Originating in west Limerick, the Rockite movement spread quickly under the impact of a prolonged economic depression. Before long the insurgency embraced many of the better-off farmers. The intensity of the Rockites’ grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on such key issues as rents and tithes presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle—prompting in turn a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, the introduction of large military reinforcements, and a determined campaign of judicial repression. A great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism, Donnelly shows, added fuel to the conflagration. Inspired by prophecies of doom for the Anglo-Irish Protestants who ruled the country, the overwhelmingly Catholic Rockites strove to hasten the demise of the landed elite they viewed as oppressors. Drawing on a wealth of sources—including reports from policemen, military officers, magistrates, and landowners as well as from newspapers, pamphlets, parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and threatening missives sent by Rockites to their enemies—Captain Rock offers a detailed anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive political contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian militancy influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great Famine of 1845–51.
Author : Derek Worthing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470697970
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Managing Built Heritage written by Derek Worthing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines management of the built cultural heritagethrough the use of the concept of cultural significance. Itconsiders how and why cultural significance is assessed and how itcan be used as an effective focus and driver for managementstrategies and processes. Effective management of the built cultural heritage requires aclear understanding of what makes a place significant (and how thatsignificance might be vulnerable) but the book also emphasises thatthis understanding of cultural significance must inform allactivities in order to ensure that what is important about theplace is protected and enhanced. The book was written in the midst of much fundamentalrethinking, both nationally and internationally, on approaches tothe conservation of our built cultural heritage. Managing BuiltHeritage: the role of cultural significance is analytical andreflective but also draws on real life examples to illustrateparticular issues, looking at current approaches and drawing outbest practice. The authors consider key policies and procedures that need to beimplemented to help ensure effective management and the book willbe useful for specialists in built cultural heritage - conservationofficers, built heritage managers, architects, planners andsurveyors - as well as for facilities and estates managers whosebuilding stock includes listed buildings or buildings inconservation areas.
Author : Hugh Crallan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Beckford in Bath written by Hugh Crallan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Francis Rimbault
Publisher : London : Dulau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soho and Its Associations written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by London : Dulau. This book was released on 1895 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Spree
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398116076
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Bath: The Postcard Collection written by Alan Spree and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Bath presented through a remarkable collection of lovely historical postcards.
