Architecture and Image-Building in Seventeenth-Century Hertfordshire

Klappentext The seventeenth century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation in English architecture! as new and purer forms of classical design became firmly established! sweeping away earlier fashions. Using Hertfordshire as a case study! Hunneyball's ground-breaking interdisciplinary study reveals how this dramatic change came about! by reconstructing for the first time a complete cross-section of building activity in a single county. This book reconstructs the complete built landscape--not just houses but churches! monuments and almshouses--to reveal a competitive and visually sensitive environment in which people at al social levels exploited architectural display to enhance their personal image. Zusammenfassung The seventeenth century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation in English architecture, as new and purer forms of classical design became firmly established, sweeping away earlier fashions. How this dramatic change came about at local level has never been fully understood. Using Hertfordshire as a case-study, this ground-breaking, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the complete built landscape--not just houses but churches, momnnuments, and almshouses--to reveal a competitive and visually sensitive environment in which people at all social levels exploited architectural display to enhance their personal image. New fashions were an important weapon in this struggle. Because only the county elite possessed the necessary contacts and resources to obtain the latest classical designs, such patterns became badges of status, symbols not just of cultural aspirations but of social ambition. Paul Hunneyball demonstrates that classical architecture caught on at local level less because it was aesthetically superior than because its advocates were socially superior.

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• Autori: Paul M. Hunneyball, Paul M. (Senior Research Fellow Hunneyball, Hunneyball Paul M.
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9780199263868
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926386-8
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Architecture, European History, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), ART / European, Hertfordshire, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800