BUILDINGS OF ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN ENGLAND, THE
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- EAN: 9780300135435
- ISBN: 978-0-300-13543-5
- Editorial: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Año de la edición: 2007
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 X 27 cm.
- Páginas: 256
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países: arquitectura y arte
gran bretaña: arquitectura y arte
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In this beautiful and elegantly argued book, Maurice Howard reveals that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War, and he shows how the transformation of the country's stock of buildings was accompanied by a new language both of word and of vision, as building accounts, government regulation and theoretical writing on the one hand, and pictorial representation on the other, directed new ways of documenting the changed appearance of the buildings in which people lived, worshipped and worked
