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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.
Hace 2 días · Sir John Vanbrugh, 1664-1726. Soldier, dramatist and architect, Vanbrugh has left a magnificent legacy of palatial building to the country of his Flemish grandfather’s adoption. By Christopher Lloyd. Painters, poets and builders have very 'high flights, but they must be kept down.”. So wrote Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough in the course of ...
约翰·范布勒爵士（Sir John Vanbrugh），他的戏剧粗俗而不失机智。. 他是被杰瑞米·科里尔所抨击的复兴时期剧作家之一，后者将他们的作品贬为下流戏剧。. 范布勒出生于伦敦，在成为剧作家之前曾在军队服役。. 《旧病复发》（1696年），是范布勒的第一部戏剧 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 de nov. de 2014 · Castillo Howard. En la construcción de este palacio inglés en Yorkshire se invirtieron muchos años, los que van de 1699 a 1726. Durante todos esos años el arquitecto John Vanbrugh (1664 – 1726) disfrutó del favor y del entusiasmo y del incesante aporte económico de su cliente, Lord Carlisle, para crear un atrevido edificio que es una de ...
