Timothy Mowl

William Kent

Architect, Designer, Opportunist

Buch

William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprenticeship in Rome where he had painted for a cardinal and won prizes from a pope.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84595-178-8
EAN: 9781845951788
Produktnummer: 17622171
Verlag: Vintage Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.6 cm 476 g
Abbildungen: 16pp b/w plates, 8pp colour plates
Gewicht: 476
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Timothy Mowl is a Reader in Architectural and Garden History at the University of Bristol. His recent publications include biographies of two eighteenth-century aesthetes, Horace Walpole (1996) and William Beckford (1998), and a polemical study, Stylistic Cold Wars, of John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner (2000). He is currently writing an historic gardens series of the English counties.