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Dudley Dodd

Stourhead

Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited

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A beautifully illustrated history of the world famous landscape garden at Stourhead, created by generations of the Hoare banking dynasty. Cross the south lawn at Stourhead and descend through the ancient and rare trees. Soon you will see a great lake appear, decorated with classical temples and arched bridge that lunges to the other side of the water. Continue on and you will find a mystical, jagged grotto; a gothic hideaway; gods, muses and saints.This is how Henry Hoare - known as Henry the Magnificent - would have approached the garden he designed with Henry Flitcroft. Did he imagine himself as a journeying Aeneas, or was he recreating a C… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Majerus, Marianne (Fotogr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-78854-361-3
  • EAN: 9781788543613
  • Produktnummer: 35462220
  • Verlag: Head of Zeus
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Dudley Dodd had a long career with the National Trust, where he was Secretary of the Arts Panel, and has published widely on Stourhead, whose first modern guidebook he wrote in 1981, as well as guidebooks to several other National Trust houses. He is co-author of Roman Splendour, English Arcadia: The Pope's Cabinet at Stourhead.

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