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The Palladian revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D036

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Palladian revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick

Other titles: Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection D036

Creator(s): Harris, John (1931-)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Centre canadien d'architecture (Host institution); Heinz Architectural Center (Host institution); Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (Host institution)

Related people: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753; Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580

Publisher: Published in association with Yale University Press

Publication city: New Haven; London

Date(s): [1994]

Language: English

Size and medium: vi, 280 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/706494

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991006177899705181

Description

Catalog of an exhibition at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 19 July-25 September 1994; the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 29 October 1994-9 January 1995; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 February-2 April 1995.


Illustrations on endpapers.


Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-274) and index.


The genesis of the Palladian revival -- The amateur architects of the Palladian revival : Lord Burlington's career -- The catalogue. Ancestry, education and patronage : catalogue numbers 1-8; The architect Earl : catalogue numbers 9-30 ; The new villa : catalogue numbers 31-68 ; The villa and old house linked : catalogue numbers 69-79 ; The garden after 1726 : catalogue numbers 80-122; Chiswick after 1740 -- Appendix. Jacques Rigaud's drawings of Chiswick -- Burlington as a bookman and collector.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at D036: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HS/42.

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