The British country house in the eighteenth century
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The British country house in the eighteenth century
（Studies in design and material culture）
Manchester University Press, 2000
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ISBN 9780719047244
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This work explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. It provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and sevants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, scultpture, style, food and entertainment are all discussed and allow him to invoke a sense of 18th-century life as it was experienced by the inhabitants of these homes. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of the political significance of the country house in the Georgian period.
Table of Contents
- The country house and money
- the architecture of the country house
- role and rank - family and servants
- the landscape
- a temple to the arts
- furnishing the country house
- entertainment.
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:pbk ISBN 9780719047251
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This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants. -- .
Table of Contents
- The country house and money
- the architecture of the country house
- role and rank - family and servants
- the landscape
- a temple to the arts
- furnishing the country house
- entertainment.
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