God's Architect

Informationen zum Autor Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. Her biography, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. In 2008 she published a prize-winning study of Stonehenge and its cultural legacy. She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books , a visiting professor at the University of York, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Literature, and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Klappentext Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian and a trustee of the Victorian Society. She has published widely on 19th and 20th century cultural history and sits on the editorial board of the London Review of Books. From 2004-05 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Zusammenfassung Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the dramatic in architectural history. This book draws on letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Hill, Hill Rosemary
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780140280999
• ISBN: 978-0-14-028099-9
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Individual architects & architectural firms, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Individual architects and architectural firms