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Sir John Vanbrugh, an Englishman of Dutch extraction (known in his earlier days as ‘Van Brugg’ or ‘Vanbrook’), whose extraordinary career encompassed remarkable activities as dramatist, architect, and opera impresario, not to mention erstwhile soldier-adventurer, East India Company man, prisoner in the Bastille, Comptroller of the Works, Surveyor of the Gardens and Waters, and ...
Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
Blenheim Palace (Sir John Vanbrugh 1705-29, listed grade I) stands towards the centre of the park on a level plateau, approached via several drives and avenues. The main approach, directly from Woodstock via the Woodstock Gate, enters the park c 700m north of the Palace, passing through a square, stone-walled court, on the south side of which ...
Hussey's still-magnificent volume on Vanbrugh's buildings in the English Homes series.5 Another and more specific debt to the theatre is discernible in Vanbrugh's buildings, however, one which has to my knowledge received no attention at all from the critics. That debt is to the perspective scenery which was Sir William
The magnificence of Castle Howard depends first and foremost on the complexity of the architecture. With its expansive plan, its richly decorated facades and its colossal, crowning dome, the original design of the house, as produced by Sir John Vanbrugh in about 1700, was like nothing before it in British architectural history (). 1 Amid this complexity and magnificence, however, we find an ...
—Plaque above the East gate of Blenheim Palace Following the Duke's death in 1722, completion of the house and its park became the Duchess's driving ambition. Vanbrugh's assistant Hawksmoor was recalled and in 1723 designed the "Arch of Triumph", based on the Arch of Titus, at the entrance to the park from Woodstock. Hawksmoor also completed the interior design of the library, the ceilings ...
