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John Vanbrugh's Architecture. As well as being a talented playwright and politician, John Vanbrugh was - along with Inigo Jones (1573-1652) and Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) one of the greatest architects of the short-lived English Baroque. Influenced by the design work of Louis Le Vau (1612-70), as well as by elements used by Andrea ...
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was an English writer, dramatist and architect . His main literary works include The Relapse (1696), The Provok'd Wife (1697), The Country House (1703), The Confederacy (1705) and The Provok'd Husband (left incomplete and later completed by Colley Cibber in 1728). As an architect, Vanbrugh designed some famous ...
John Vanbrugh, né le 24 janvier 1664 et mort le 26 mars 1726, est un architecte et dramaturge britannique. On lui doit notamment l'édification de palais de Blenheim et du château Howard . Il rédige également deux comédies engagées et argumentées : La Rechute ou la Vertu en danger ( The Relapse ) en 1696 et L'Épouse outragée ( The Provoked Wife ) en 1697 .
Ne sont pas mentionnées ici les éditions d ' Aesop et de A Journey to London, non plus que celles des adaptations de Vanbrugh, que l'on trouvera dans la bibliographie de Marie-Louise Fluchère, L'Oeuvre dramatique de Sir John Vanbrugh (Ophrys, 1980), pp. 907-9.
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 ...
John Jackson, Conversation piece in the sunlit Long Gallery, where the ageing Lord Carlisle contemplates, in the company of his youngest son, Henry Howard, an unidentified painting on an easel, circa 1810. Oil on canvas, 61 × 73.6 cm. Castle Howard. Digital image courtesy of Castle Howard.
★ Arquitectura de John Vanbrugh Además de ser un dramaturgo y político talentoso, John Vanbrugh fue, junto con Iñigo Jones (1573-1652) y señor Christopher Wren (1632-1723) uno de los grandes arquitectos del efímero barroco inglés.
