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Author : Tim Buxbaum
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Scottish Garden Buildings written by Tim Buxbaum and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.)
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Lost Gardens written by Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.) and published by Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens are one of the most important elements in the cultural history of Scotland. Like any art form, they provide an insight into social, political and economic fashions, they intimately reflect the personalities and ideals of the individuals who created them, and they capture the changing fortunes of successive generations of monarchs and noblemen. Yet they remain fragile features of the landscape, easily changed, abandoned or destroyed, leaving little or no trace.In Scotland's Lost Gardens, author Marilyn Brown rediscovers the fascinating stories of the nation's vanished historic gardens. Drawing on varied, rare and newly available archive material, including the cartography of Timothy Pont, a spy map of Holyrood drawn for Henry VIII during the 'Rough Wooing', medieval charters, renaissance poetry, the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, and modern aerial photography, a remarkable picture emerges of centuries of lost landscapes.Starting with the monastic gardens of St Columba on the Isle of Iona in the sixth century, and encompassing the pleasure parks of James IV and James V, the royal and noble refuges of Mary Queen of Scots, and the 'King's Knot', the garden masterpiece which lies below Stirling Castle, the history of lost gardens is inextricably linked to the wider history of the nation, from the spread of Christianity to the Reformation and the Union of the Crowns.The product of over 30 years of research, Scotland's Lost Gardens demonstrates how our cultural heritage sits within a wider European movement of shared artistic values and literary influences. Providing a unique perspective on this common past, it is also a fascinating guide to Scotland's disappeared landscapes and sanctuaries - lost gardens laid out many hundreds of years ago 'for the honourable delight of body and soul'.
Author : Geoffrey Stell
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's buildings written by Geoffrey Stell and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2000 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times there has been a substantial flow of Scottish books on architectural themes. 'Scotland's Buildings' goes further than these. The concept of buildings is taken to include structures built for any functional purpose. The perspective of the volume is thus very wide, which gives it a unique quality.
Author : Humm Louisa Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147445528X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 written by Humm Louisa Humm and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town. Steps decisively away from the 'Scottish castle' genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland's first well-documented grouping of major architects - including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations a
Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden written by Kate Felus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
Author : Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gardens for Small Houses written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Gow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468608
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Scottish Country Houses, 1600-1914 written by Ian Gow and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new illustrated paperback edition examines the Scottish country house in all its guises - from great classical houses like Hopetoun, to familiar castles such as Glamis and Craigievar - as well as giving insights into the architects who designed them, including William and Robert Adam, Sir John James Burnet and Sir William Bruce.
Author : Mackay Sheila Mackay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474470513
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Early Scottish Gardens written by Mackay Sheila Mackay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did early Scottish gardens look like? How did these gardens relate to the house and how did passing time affect their development? Where did the plant stock come from: herbs, shrubs, annuals and perennials, from the thistle to the rose? Did the gardens match the richly embellished interiors of Scots aristocrats and merchants, particularly after the Reformation? Evocative and tantalising remains of 'missing gardens' such as earthworks, stone walls, doocots, date stones, terracing, traceries of paths, sundials, a few ancient yews, and gardens themselves - Culross, Edzell, Pitmedden, Kinross -fire the imagination as Sheila Mackay guides the reader on a personal tour of the 16th, 17th and 18th-century gardens of Scotland.Contrary to popular belief within British garden history, designed landscapes have played a vital role in the lives of aspiring Scots from the 16th century, with paintings from the time depicting elaborate gardens to match houses and interiors that reflected status, wealth and a sense of self-esteem. In her exploration of these gardens - from Arthur's Seat in 1500 to The Hermitage in 1750 - Sheila Mackay reveals the dramatic developments that occurred during this period.This is a history peopled with the characters of the time, and includes extracts from songs, poems, and paintings of gardens throughout the period. Imaginative reconstructions of gardens for the people of the time - a 16th-century garden for the calligrapher Esther Inglis and a 17th-century landscape for the portrait painter George Jamesone - and the creative re-design of the ground of the Pleasaunce at Edzell Castle in light of contemporary European developments enhance the sense of the inspired designs of the time.An evocative picture is painted of these gardens and it is hoped that this will inspire the reader to make their own distinctive maps and undertake their own explorations of the gardens of Scotland.Key Features:*Illustrated with over 90 photograph
Author : Rosemary Gibson
Publisher : John Donald Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scottish Countryside written by Rosemary Gibson and published by John Donald Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of the extensive plans holdings of the National Archives of Scotland to illustrate the great change on the face of the country, this selection from the 100,000 plans shows the value of these sources for many aspects of Scotland's past and to display snapshots of the landscape through three centuries of change.
Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629068
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death.This volume:*Provides a rich and finely nuanced social history of the period 1600-1800 *Gets behind the politics of Union and Jacobitism, and the experience of agricultural and industrial 'revolution'*Presents the scholarly expertise of its contributing authors in a accessible way*Includes a guide to further reading indicating sources for further study
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856691063
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Great Houses of Scotland written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26 houses photographed in colour and accompanied by informative text about their history.
Author : Michael Reed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040254764
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830 written by Michael Reed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830 (originally published in 1983), Michael Reed re-creates the ambience of eighteenth-century Britain, a period of astonishing change and, paradoxically, of massive stability. Both the change and the stability were reflected in the landscape. Dr Reed explores the visual impact on the landscape of the adoption of new ideas and practices. These range from the acceptance of the Palladian style of architecture and its gradual replacement by a taste for Gothic, Picturesque or Chinese designs, to the practical exploration of the power of atmospheric pressure and improvements in road-making techniques and the design of water wheels. He describes the ‘feel’ of what it must have been like to live through the years which saw the beginning of the end for the old, medieval society, and the birth of a modern industrial nation. Traditional ways of life were slowly abandoned as ancient open fields were enclosed and divided up by straight roads and hedgerows. Changes in the moral climate led to the gradual disappearance of village feasts and the suppression of cockfighting and bull-running, while other, more acceptable, pastimes such as horse-racing and cricket acquired rules and institutions. The book shows that these changes were brought about by people at work and at play; going about their everyday affairs, they wrote and re-wrote upon the landscape the autobiography of the society of which they formed a part, reflecting its aspirations, ideals and achievements.
Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199234825
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Scottish History written by Michael Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.
Author : Garden History Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Newsletter written by Garden History Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Brandes Madry
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059530057X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Well Worth a Shindy written by Sarah Brandes Madry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well Worth a Shindy tells the story of the Old Well, beloved symbol of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United States' first public university. The Old Well is a Greco-Roman garden temple built in 1897 over an old water well on the campus. The facts concerning the Old Well's beginnings serve to introduce an historical study of the round temple from Mycenaean tholos tombs and treasuries to eighteenth-century English garden follies. The reasons that the Old Well was built, according to its commissioner, Edwin Alderman, the sixth president of the University of North Carolina, are repetitious of those that directed such as Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to build round temples to be symbols of their territorial and dynastic desires. The mythological, philosophical, and artistic conventions that Alderman and the designer of the Old Well, Eugene Lewis Harris, used to construct the temple were not new but were ancient guides filtered through Medieval and Renaissance prisms. A catalog of over 100 round structures in 14 countries is provided.
Author : Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gardens for Small Country Houses written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
