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Capability Brown

Author : Joan Clifford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown written by Joan Clifford and published by Bloomsbury Shire Publications. This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Genius', 'master', 'pre-eminent' - these are terms used by experts to describe Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the eighteenth-century landscape designer who wrought a garden revolution in England. For 150 years his activities as a garden designer and architect were largely unrecorded but in recent years a new and vivid interest has arisen in his work. The tale of the garden-boy who rose to fame, riches and friendship of the king is remarkable in itself and some of his splendid achievements are still available for public appreciation. About the author Joan Clifford is a full-time author with varied interests, specialising as a biographer.

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783

Author : Jane Brown
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140901942X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783 written by Jane Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision, and fantasy, of rural England. In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, and his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown, from his childhood and apprenticeship in rural Northumberland, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, and his affable and generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 and his clients and friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists and actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England, Brown never ceased working until he collapsed and died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary, always willing to try something new. As this beautifully illustrated biography shows, Brown filled England with enchantment - follies, cascades, lakes, bridges, ornaments, monuments, meadows and woods - creating views that still delight us today.

Capability Brown, 1716-1783

Author : Joan Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852632741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown, 1716-1783 written by Joan Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Author : Jane Brown
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845951794
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Lancelot 'Capability' Brown written by Jane Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influence moved into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision, and fantasy, of rural England. In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, and his crowded world. She follows the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown from his childhood and apprenticeship in rural Northumberland, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, and his affable and generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 and his clients and friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists and actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England, Brown never ceased working until he collapsed and died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary, always willing to try something new. As this beautifully illustrated biography shows, Brown filled England with enchantment - follies, cascades, lakes, bridges, ornaments, monuments, meadows and woods - creating views that still delight us today. 'Her book should find a home in any garden-lover's glove compartment.' Spectator 'Robust and revealing.' Independent 'Revealing the back story of our best-loved landscapes will open many, newly appreciative eyes.' The Lady 'An exhaustive and beautifully illustrated biography that has been long overdue... Those who love his gardens...will be delighted with this book.' Mail on Sunday

Place-making

Author : John Phibbs
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 1848023669
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Place-making written by John Phibbs and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown’s landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.

Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden

Author : Laura Mayer
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747810490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden written by Laura Mayer and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III, his trademark features included bald lawns, clumped trees, undulating lakes and enclosing belts of woodland on the estate's perimeter. With this standard park formula Brown and his followers held the commercial monopoly on garden design well into the following century, resisting the more rugged topography advocated by Richard Payne Knight's new generation of Romantics.

Capability Brown and Humphry Repton

Author : Edward Hyams
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown and Humphry Repton written by Edward Hyams and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by French and Italian landscape painting, a number of eighteenth-century artist-gardeners led by William Kent created an art-form unique in the West, althought favoured from times of antiquity in China and Japan: the picturesque garden - virtually a landscape picture made not of paint on canvas but of real country and buildings. Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of this art, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from 'natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both , in the course of their work, met many of the leading men of their day, and George III made a friend of Brown; both, in their different ways, exerted a lasting influence on other landscape designers, including those of America and Europe. -- Book jacket.

The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author : Derek Fell
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711229679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright written by Derek Fell and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his strikingly modern structures, Frank Lloyd Wright was also a highly influential landscape designer. The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright is the first book in full color to focus on Wright’s four most famous residential landscapes: his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent 3,000-acre summer home Taliesin, in Wisconsin; his 600-acre winter home Taliesin West, in Arizona; and Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, the commission that made him world famous. The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, as well as extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, the book also explores the Japanese and Mayan landscapes that inspired Wright and his appreciation of the stone meeting circles and naturalistic prairie plantings of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. Planting plans allow readers to create prairie- and desert-style gardens of their very own.

Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape

Author : Roger Turner
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297787341
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape written by Roger Turner and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leven en werk van de Engelse landschapsarchitect Capability Brown (is Lancelot Brown ; 1716-1783).

Capability Brown of Kirkharle 1716-1783

Author : Adrian Woodhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown of Kirkharle 1716-1783 written by Adrian Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening

Author : Humphry Repton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619810464
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening written by Humphry Repton and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Capability Brown

Author : Dorothy Stroud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571134052
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Capability Brown written by Dorothy Stroud and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the eighteenth century British landscape architect, discusses his most important designs, and explains his theories of landscaping

National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790

Author : John Ingamells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790 written by John Ingamells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.

What did Capability Brown do for Ecology? The legacy for biodiversity, landscapes, and nature conservation

Author : Christine Handley (eds)
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1904098657
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book What did Capability Brown do for Ecology? The legacy for biodiversity, landscapes, and nature conservation written by Christine Handley (eds) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a major conference with Historic England, Natural England, the Ancient Tree Forum and others which took place in 2016 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. The event brought together ecologists, landscape historians and archaeologists, land managers and conservationists to look critically at the impact of Brown and his successors on the UK's landscape. The book addresses the paradigms of these designed landscapes. It considers the issues around the legacy of Brown's creations and ideas and the repercussions that are still apparent today. It makes for a thought-provoking and rich discussion covering habitat conservation and creation, drainage and the release of alien species. This is the untold story of the ecology of Capability Brown and the landscape school which followed.

Inventing the Garden

Author : Matteo Vercelloni
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060473
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Garden written by Matteo Vercelloni and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors trace the evolution of the Western garden from the first plots cultivated for pleasure in the Middle East to today's diverse green spaces that challenge traditional ideas about what constitutes a garden. They examine the changing attitude toward nature--as something to be dominated or embraced, ordered or allowed to range freely, exploited or conserved. Examples of the highly prescribed hortus conclusus or enclosed spaces of the Middle Ages are found in the Italian Renaissance gardens and the symmetries of Versailles and Les Tuileries. After the rise of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century, English gardeners such as William Kent and "Capability" Brown embraced the concept that nature should prevail over man's manipulation of it and created gardens that broke through traditional enclosures. A century later, while the American West witnessed both the conquering spirit of the homesteaders and the first stirrings of the conservation movement, urban parks and gardens were created as oases to which all people had access. The book concludes with a look at contemporary gardens, where efforts to reclaim landscapes and repurpose crumbling infrastructure are taking place within an atmosphere of ecological sensitivity--appreciating the idea that the whole planet is a garden and all who live in it are gardeners.

When Scotland Was Jewish

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455225
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Wilderness by Design

Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263833
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness by Design written by Ethan Carr and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.