Download or read book The Canterbury Quadrangle written by Howard Colvin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury Quadrangle at St. John's College is one of the most famous and beautiful of Oxford's historic buildings. It was built in 1631-6 at the expense of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a gift to his old college and to celebrate his own rise to power as Chancellor of theUniversity and one of the greatest men in Charles I's England. This book describes how the quadrangle was built, investigates the sources of the design and the iconography of the sculptural decoration, and puts forward some new ideas about the place of the Canterbury Quadrangle in English architectural history. The author also investigates the complicatedhistory of the library which occupies two of its sides, and discusses the changing attitudes towards the conservation of the quadrangle that have prevailed during the last hundred years.
Download or read book Seventeenth century Oxford written by Nicholas Tyacke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period when both institutionally and intellectually the University was expanding. Oxford and its University, moreover, had a major role to play in the tumultuous religious and political eventsof the century: the Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration. In this volume, leading experts in several fields combine to present a comprehensive and authoritative analysis and overview of the rich pattern of intellectual, political, and cultural life in seventeenth-century Oxford.
Download or read book Oxford written by Robert Peel and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Architecture in an Oxford College written by Geoffrey Tyack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed historical study of the post-war architecture of St John's College, Oxford. In the sixty years since 1945 St John's has been one of the major patrons of modern architecture in Oxford and Cambridge, commissioning a series of innovative and successful buildings from a sequence of leading architectural practices (Architects Co-Partnership, Arup Associates, MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard). The college's modern buildings epitomise changing architectural ideas and practice over the last sixty years, from the neo-Georgianism of the immediate post-war years through the confident modernism of the late 1950s to the 1970s, to the post-modernism of more recent years. Geoffrey Tyack discusses these buildings in detail, with the help of copious illustrations, placing each building within the context of its architect's oeuvre and relating it to the changing character of Oxford University. It is thus intended to be a contribution to the understanding both of modern collegiate architecture and of reent English architectural in general. Publication will coincide with the 450th anniversary of the foundation of St John's College.
Download or read book Geology of the Bald Knob Quadrangle Ferry and Okanogan Counties Washington written by Mortimer Hay Staatz and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology of 198 square miles in the central part of the Okanogan Highlands, Washington.
Download or read book The Argosy written by Mrs. Henry Wood and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.
Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford written by Geoffrey Tyack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. This copiously illustrated, chronological guide emphasizes what actually can be seen. Author Geoffrey Tyack suggests a number of walks around Oxford and its immediate environs, providing an ideal companion for the city's visitors and an excellent reference book for architectural enthusiasts. 8 color and 230 bandw plates. 18 plans and maps.
Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Papers written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company. This book was released on 1855 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has been saved the trouble of searching for a title to his book from the simple circumstance that the articles of which the work is made up appeared in the columns of the New York Independent with the signature of a STAR, and, having been familiarly called the Star Articles, by way of designation, they now become, in a book form, STAR PAPERS. Only such papers as related to art and to rural affairs, have been published in this volume. It was thought best to put all controversial articles in another, and subsequent, volume. The letters to Europe were written to home friends, during a visit of only four weeks ; a period too short to allow the subsidence of that enthusiasm which every person must needs experience who, for the first time, stands in the historic places of the Old World. An attempt to exclude from these letters any excess of personal feeling, to reduce them to a more moderate tone, to correct their judgments, or to extract from them the fiery particles of enthusiasms, would have taken away their very life. The other papers in this volume, for the most part, were written from the solitudes of the country, during the vacations of three summers.
Download or read book Enlightened Oxford written by Nigel Aston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-19 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Berks Bucks and Oxfordshire Including a Particular Description of the University and City of Oxford With a Travelling Map and Plans written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Berks Bucks and Oxfordshire written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain written by Hubert Pragnell and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to encourage exploration, this pocket-sized guidebook to British architecture provides a delightful primer on building styles. It’s packed with informative, charming drawings; presents an outline of how different movements developed; and places each building in its cultural and historical context. The buildings that receive specific attention are Burghley House and Castle Howard.
Download or read book The Further Correspondence of William Laud written by William Laud and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, provides revealing insights into his mind, methods and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel the church and the clerical estatein the three kingdoms.
Download or read book Henrietta Maria written by Erin Griffey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout Catholic faith - are only a part of the backdrop against which Henrietta Maria is re-considered. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of scholars from different disciplines, these essays explore and shed new light on the Queen's various roles: a patron of performing and visual arts with taste and influence comparable to her husband's, her salient political position between the French and English courts, and her political sentiments at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Through cutting-edge archival research that includes investigations into household accounts and personal correspondence, this collection ultimately presents a new assessment of female power and influence at the early modern court. What becomes strikingly evident is that Henrietta Maria had a distinct and profound influence on material and political culture that deserves the attention of art history, literature, theatre, and musicology scholars.
Download or read book Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe written by Sandra Cavallo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. By bringing together two areas of inquiry that have so far been seen as distinct, the study of institutions and that of the house and domesticity, this collection provides new insights into the domestic experience of men, women and children who lived in non-family arrangements, while also expanding and problematizing the notion of 'domestic interior'. Through specific case studies, contributors reassess the validity of the categories 'domestic' and 'institutional' and of the oppositions private public, communal individual, religious profane applied to institutional spaces and objects. They consider how rituals, interior decorations, furnishings and images were transferred from the domestic to the institutional interior and vice versa, but also the creative ways in which the residents participated in the formation of their living settings. A variety of secular and religious institutions are considered: hospitals, asylums and orphanages, convents, colleges, public palaces of the ducal and papal court. The interest and novelty of this collection resides in both its subject matter and its interdisciplinary and Europe-wide dimension. The theme is addressed from the perspective of art history, architectural history, and social, gender and cultural history. Chapters deal with Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Flanders and Portugal and with both Protestant and Catholic settings. The wide range of evidence employed by contributors includes sources - such as graffiti, lottery tickets or garland pictures - that have rarely if ever been considered by historians.
