Stourhead

Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited

Stourhead
James Stourton, Marianne Majerus, Dudley Dodd
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NZ$ 97.99
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NZ$ 78.39
Hardback
h290 x 245mm - 320pg
14 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788543620
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An illustrated history of the landscape garden at Stourhead, created by generations of the Hoare banking dynasty. 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 Claud Lorrain landscape? This is the first history - in colour - of a unique landscape created by generations of the Hoare banking family. It follows its evolution, describing how flights of folly, individual flair and tastes, combined with careful stewardship, have formed a national treasure and one of the finest example of the English landscape garden. The book includes a foreword by James Stourton and newly commissioned photography by renowned garden photographer Marianne Majerus.
' It is rare to find a book which is as scholarly as it is beautiful yet Roman Splendour, English Arcadia is a triumphant exception [. . . ] based on meticulous analyses of the object and of archival and literary sources' * The Art Newspaper, on Roman Splendour, English Arcadia *
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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788543620
Published: 14 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Hardback
Height: 290mm
Width: 245mm
Pages: 320

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