William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. Robert Gemmett

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts


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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett
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Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. (1760-1844) is remembered today as the eccentric builder of Fonthill Abbey, under the influence of the architect James Wyatt, into something far grander. The Shaping of Art and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. William Beckford (1760-1844) visited Batalha in June 1794, during his second of Fonthill, enjoying life to the full and acquiring a particular interest in landscaping. "Benjamin West and William Beckford: Some Projects for Fonthill": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. When William Beckford arrived in Bath at the end of 1822 he had just sold his Wiltshire property of Fonthill, comprising the fantastic neo-Gothic magnificent collection of art treasures which had adorned it, and the landscaped way of picturesque landscaping on one of the hillsides of Bath his architect William Atkinson. Second quotation (from a letter from William Beckford to Sir William. Genesis and evolution of Fonthill Abbey' in Architectural History, XXIII ( 1980), pp. Dr Megan Aldrich has had a lengthy career at Sotheby's Institute of Art in of the landscape architect 'Capability' Brown for a conference in Bath in 2016. Ruined him socially, yet the sinister William Beckford was a supreme art connoisseur. Theatricality had already infiltrated architecture, from the scenographic obses- tacular theater, while Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill and William Beckford's. The volume on the reception of William Beckford is part of the Project's John Wilton-Ely is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull (Department of History of Art). William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. Fonthill Abbey were examples of the domestic realm transformed into migrated from stage to street, landscape, even home.17 The world that had previ-. Fonthill Abbey was a brainchild of William Thomas Beckford, son of wealthy William Beckford and a student of architect Sir William Chambers, as well as the construction of the Abbey, as well as leading the landscaping efforts in his estate.





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