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Book Synopsis Sir Christopher Wren by : Paul Rabbitts
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Paul Rabbitts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture – but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and more than fifty parish churches after the Great Fire of London, among his countless other projects Wren also designed the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, and much of Hampton Court Palace. Replete with colourful images of his buildings, this concise biography tells the story of a man whose creations are still popular tourist attractions to this day, but also casts light on Wren's credentials as an intellectual and a founding member of the Royal Society.
Book Synopsis True Friendship by : Christopher Ricks
Download or read book True Friendship written by Christopher Ricks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through the lenses of their successors. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers, as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound. “Opposition is true Friendship.” So William Blake believed, or at any rate hoped. Hill, Hecht, and Lowell demonstrate many kinds of friendship with Eliot and Pound: adversarial, artistic, personal. In their creative assent and dissent, the imaginative literary allusions—like other, wider forms of influence—are shown to constitute the most magnanimous of welcomes and of tributes.
Book Synopsis On a Grander Scale by : Lisa Jardine
Download or read book On a Grander Scale written by Lisa Jardine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sir Christopher Wren from one of Britain's best writers and historians
Book Synopsis DC Confidential by : Sir Christopher Meyer
Download or read book DC Confidential written by Sir Christopher Meyer and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both the British ambassador to the US and as John Major's press secretary, Christopher Meyer has had unique access to the inner workings of government. In this book, he recalls close encounters with New Labour, the KGB and Bill Clinton, as well as the post 9/11 period and the relationship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush.
Book Synopsis Lord of Misrule by : Christopher Lee
Download or read book Lord of Misrule written by Christopher Lee and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of one of Britain's most distinguished actors.
Download or read book Cinema written by Philip Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema in the context of social and cultural developments that have taken place since its beginnings. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of cinematic development, from the earliest days of film projection to the multiscreen cinemas and super-technology of today. Illustrated, in-depth text charts every genre of cinema, from the first silent films to epic blockbusters, CGI graphics and groundbreaking effects of the 21st century. Cinema: The Whole Story is an indispensable book for all those who love watching and reading about films and who want to understand more about the world of cinema.
Book Synopsis The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren by : Paul Jeffery
Download or read book The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren written by Paul Jeffery and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Fire of 1666 devastated the centre of London, with a loss of old St Paul's and eighty-six parish churches. Sir Christopher Wren, working with Commissioners appointed by Parliament, was responsible for rebuilding the cathedral and fifty-one of the parish churches, although the immediate need to start rebuilding made his design for an overall replanning of the City impossible. The work was funded by a tax on coals brought into the City of London. Much has been written about Wren's rebuilding of St Paul's, while the other fifty-ne parish chirches he was appointed to reconstruct are generally overlooked. This is the first modern book to examine them as a whole. Paul Jeffery describes how and when the churches were built, exploring the respective contributions of Wren and of his two principal assistants, Robert Hooke and Nicholas Hawksmoor. The result of their work was a unique set of contemporary churches. While not all are of the standard of Wren's masterpieces, such as St Stephen Walbrook and St Bride's, none is without architectural merit and interest. The second part of the book is a gazetteer of all the churches, including those that no longer exist. The book is heavily illustrated and provides a visual strong record of all the churches. Since they were built the Wren churches have suffered steady losses. St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished in 1782 to make way for the Bank of England. Others, such as St Dionis Backchurch and St Antholin Budge Row, were lost to Victorian parish rationalisation. Many were destroyed or badly damaged in the Second World War. Only twenty-three of the original fifty-one remain. These are now under threat again, with the Templeman Report's proposal that only four of the existing churches (none by Wren) should be retained as parish churches. They provide a test case of conservation, sitting as they do in the middle of the City of London. The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren presents a clear case both for their importance and for their preservation.
Book Synopsis The Architectural Drawings of Sir Christopher Wren by : Anthony Geraghty
Download or read book The Architectural Drawings of Sir Christopher Wren written by Anthony Geraghty and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect of his time and is best known for his work in London after the Great Fire of 1666, in particular his iconic work on the restoration of St Paul's Cathedral. This catalogue is a comprehensive survey of the collection of Wren workshop drawings held by All Souls College, Oxford. It comprises 453 illustrations by Wren himself and by Edward Woodroofe, Thomas Laine and most notably by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."
Book Synopsis Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella by : Christopher Frayling
Download or read book Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampires Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (new to this edition) which is analyzed by the author in a broader cultural context. This revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic brings Vampyres up to date with twenty-first-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary, and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four color-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from eighteenth-century prints to twenty-first-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.
Book Synopsis Time and Power by : Christopher Clark
Download or read book Time and Power written by Christopher Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the insights of Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog, two pioneers of the "temporal turn" in historiography, Clark shows how Friedrich Wilhelm rejected the notion of continuity with the past, believing instead that a sovereign must liberate the state from the entanglements of tradition to choose freely among different possible futures. He demonstrates how Frederick the Great abandoned this paradigm for a neoclassical vision of history in which sovereign and state transcend time altogether, and how Bismarck believed that the statesman's duty was to preserve the timeless permanence of the state amid the torrent of historical change. Clark describes how Hitler did not seek to revolutionize history like Stalin and Mussolini, but instead sought to evade history altogether, emphasizing timeless racial archetypes and a prophetically foretold future.
Book Synopsis Sir Christopher Wren by : Heywood Gould
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Heywood Gould and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the architect who helped rebuild London after the fire of 1666 and who redesigned St. Paul's Cathedral.
Book Synopsis On a Grander Scale by : Lisa Jardine
Download or read book On a Grander Scale written by Lisa Jardine and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Sir Christopher Wren undertook, he envisaged on a grander scale -- bigger, better, more enduring than anything that had gone before. A versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity, he was a mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, a skillful anatomist, and a founder of the Royal Society. Eventually, he made a career in what he described disparagingly in later life as "Rubbish" -- the architecture, design, and construction of public buildings. Through the prism of Wren's tumultuous life and brilliant intellect, historian Lisa Jardine unfolds the vibrant, extraordinary emerging new world of late-seventeenth-century science and ideas.
Book Synopsis Living the Cold War by : Christopher Mallaby
Download or read book Living the Cold War written by Christopher Mallaby and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of the Cold War as seen by a key diplomat abroad and in London. A privileged view of work that won the Cold War, written with humour and insight.
Book Synopsis The History of the County of Dublin by : John D'Alton
Download or read book The History of the County of Dublin written by John D'Alton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Index Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
