Enlightened eclecticism : the grand design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland / Adriano Aymonino.
By: Aymonino, Adriano [author.]
Contributor(s): Yale University Press [distributor.]Publisher: London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021Description: xii, 340 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour mapsContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781913107178Other title: The grand design of the first Duke and Duchess of Northumberland [Portion of title]Subject(s): Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786 -- Homes and haunts | Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776 -- Homes and haunts | Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786 -- Art collections | Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776 -- Art collections | Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century | Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820DDC classification: 941.073 Summary: "The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712-86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural styles--Stanwick Hall, Northumberland House, Syon House, and Alnwick Castle - alongside the innumerable objects they collected, their funerary monuments, and their persistent engagement in Georgian London's public sphere. Over the years, their commissions embraced or pioneered styles as varied as Palladianism, rococo, neoclassicism, and Gothic revival. In every instance, minute details contributed to large-scale projects expressing the Northumberlands' various aesthetic and cultural allegiances. Their development sheds light on the eclectic taste of Georgian Britain, the emergence of neoclassicism, and the cultures of the Grand Tour and the Enlightenment."-- Jacket flap.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.073 AYM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019144 |
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"The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712-86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural styles--Stanwick Hall, Northumberland House, Syon House, and Alnwick Castle - alongside the innumerable objects they collected, their funerary monuments, and their persistent engagement in Georgian London's public sphere. Over the years, their commissions embraced or pioneered styles as varied as Palladianism, rococo, neoclassicism, and Gothic revival. In every instance, minute details contributed to large-scale projects expressing the Northumberlands' various aesthetic and cultural allegiances. Their development sheds light on the eclectic taste of Georgian Britain, the emergence of neoclassicism, and the cultures of the Grand Tour and the Enlightenment."-- Jacket flap.