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After the Fire - London Churches in the Age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs (Hardcover)
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After the Fire - London Churches in the Age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs (Hardcover)
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'London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn
summed up the destruction wrought by the Great Fire that swept
through the City of London in 1666. The losses included St Paul's
Cathedral and eight-seven parish churches (as well as at least
thirteen thousand houses). In After the Fire, celebrated
photographer and architectural historian Angelo Hornak explores,
with the help of his own stunning photographs, the churches built
in London during the sixty years that followed the Great Fire, as
London rose from the ashes, more beautiful - and far more
spectacular - than ever before. The catastrophe offered a unique
opportunity to Christopher Wren and his colleagues - including
Robert Hooke and Nicholas Hawksmoor - who, over the next forty
years, rebuilt St Paul's and fifty-one other London churches in a
dramatic new style inspired by the European Baroque. Forty-five
years after the Fire, the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711 gave
Nicholas Hawksmoor the scope to build breathtaking (and
controversial) new churches including St Anne's Limehouse, Christ
Church Spitalfields and St George's Bloomsbury. By the 1720s the
pendulum was swinging away from the Baroque of Wren and Hawksmoor,
and it was James Gibbs' more restrained St Martin-in the-Fields
that was to provide the prototype for churches throughout the
English-speaking world - especially in North America - for the next
hundred years.
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