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29 de may. de 2018 · Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664–1726). English architect of Flemish descent, author of risqué plays (including The Provok'd Wife (1697) sketched while languishing in French gaols), herald, soldier, and wit. Architecture became his prime interest around 1699 when he made designs for Castle Howard, Yorks., for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle ...
"John Vanbrugh" published on by null. (1664–1726) English playwright and architect.After a varied career, eventually as a renowned playwright (The Relapse 1696; The Provok’d Wife 1697), Vanbrugh’s ambitions took a sudden and unexplained shift to ...
Sir John Vanbrugh.Fue un arquitecto y dramaturgo inglés. Mayormente conocido por haber sido el diseñador del palacio de Blenheim. Escribió dos polémicas comedias de la literatura de la Restauración inglesa, The Relapse (1696) y The Provoked Wife (1697) que se siguen representando en los escenarios, a menudo rodeadas de controversia.
John Vanbrugh was born in 1664 in London, the son of a cloth merchant of Dutch descent called Giles Vanbrook. He grew up in the Roman town of Chester and initially followed in his father's footsteps as a merchant, becoming a factor for the East India Company in Surat, India in 1683.
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 ...
John Vanbrugh (etternavnet uttales Van-bruh[trenger referanse]) (født 24. januar 1664, død 26. mars 1726) var en engelsk arkitekt og forfatter av lystspill. Han er kanskje best kjent som designer av Blenheim Palace og Castle Howard. Han skrev to polemiske og frimodige restaurasjonslystspill, The Relapse ( Tilbakefall, 1696) og The Provoked ...
John was born in London, the 4th child of Giles Vanbrugh, a cloth-merchant. He was raised in Chester after his family fled London in the wake of the Great Fire and Plague. His father later worked in the sugar trade, possibly owning a sugar import business, though this is unclear. What is clear, though, is that like Wren before him, Vanbrugh ...