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10 de dic. de 2021 · William Kent (1685 – 1748) was the leading architect and designer of early Georgian Britain. Credited as having introduced the Palladian style of architecture into England and originating the 'natural' style of gardening known as the English landscape garden, Kent was a polymath, who also turned his hand to designing sculpture ...
21 de mar. de 2014 · Though he informed the Georgian age, a Kentian garden, a Kent interior or even a sideboard are still in demand today. So where did his encyclopedic ideas come from?
- Jonathan Foyle
William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain explores Kent’s work over three decades (1719–48)—a period when Britain was defining itself as a new nation and overtak-ing France as a leading world power. Like Robert Adam a generation later, Kent is identified not only with his own prolific and diverse output but also with an entire period style.
2 de ene. de 2014 · “William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain,” at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, should thrill Anglophiles as least as much as the return of “Downton Abbey.”
20 de feb. de 2014 · William Kent by William Aikman, c1723. Working across interiors, sculpture, theatre design and landscaping (to name but a few disciplines) he is credited with introducing Palladian architecture to England, and his works include the Treasury and Horse Guards in London. Source: Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
William Kent (1685-1748), the leading architect and designer of early Georgian Britain. The exhibition celebrates Kent’s oeuvre over four decades (1709-48) when Britain defined itself as a new nation with the act of union with Scotland (1707) and the accession of a new Hanoverian Royal Family (1714).
An enfant terrible of English architecture, William Kent (c.1685-1748) was a versatile artist, a painter, decorator, architect and landscape gardener.
