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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 ...
John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), dramaturgo británico que fue además uno de los grandes arquitectos del barroco en su país. Nació en Londres, se educó en Cheshire y al ser apresado como militar por los franceses, comenzó a escribir. Sus textos son excelentes ejemplos de la comedia de la restauración: La reincidencia (1696) y La mujer provocada ...
"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 ...
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.
John Vanbrugh (24 gennaio 1664 – 26 marzo 1726) è stato un architetto e drammaturgo inglese. Fu personaggio vitale ed esuberante della cultura inglese tra XVII e XVIII secolo. Autore di commedie scollacciate ed esponente di rilievo, come architetto, del barocco inglese [1] .
13 de nov. de 2008 · Vanbrugh was the eldest surviving son of a cloth merchant of Flemish Protestant ancestry and a well-connected English gentlewoman. He was born in London, but his parents had moved to Chester by 1667, where he grew up. Vanbrugh first attempted to pursue a career as a merchant, and, in 1683, he sailed to India as a factor in the East India Company.
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 ...
