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Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry
Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century 'Gothic' villa and garden
beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can
read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste'
created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a
collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all,
it expresses the inseparable integration of house and setting, and
of the architecture with the collection, all specific to one
individual, a unity that is relevant today to all architects,
landscape designers and garden and country house enthusiasts.
Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous
texts, this beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa
and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stimulate
'The Pleasures of the Imagination' articulated in the series of
essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator
(1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts
behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are not based around
architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics
theories, antiquarianism and matters of 'Taste'. Using
architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, Walpole expresses the
mythical idea that it was based on monastic foundations with visual
links to significant historical figures and events in English
history. The book explains for the first time the reasons for its
creation, which have never been adequately explored or fully
understood in previous publications. The book develops an argument
that Walpole was the first to define theories on Gothic
architecture in his Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71). Similarly
innovative, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) is
one of the first to attempt a history and theory of gardening. The
research uniquely evaluates how these theories found expression at
Strawberry Hill. This reassessment of the villa and its associated
l
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry
Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century 'Gothic' villa and garden
beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can
read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste'
created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a
collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all,
it expresses the inseparable integration of house and setting, and
of the architecture with the collection, all specific to one
individual, a unity that is relevant today to all architects,
landscape designers and garden and country house enthusiasts.
Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous
texts, this beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa
and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stimulate
'The Pleasures of the Imagination' articulated in the series of
essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator
(1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts
behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are not based around
architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics
theories, antiquarianism and matters of 'Taste'. Using
architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, Walpole expresses the
mythical idea that it was based on monastic foundations with visual
links to significant historical figures and events in English
history. The book explains for the first time the reasons for its
creation, which have never been adequately explored or fully
understood in previous publications. The book develops an argument
that Walpole was the first to define theories on Gothic
architecture in his Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71). Similarly
innovative, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) is
one of the first to attempt a history and theory of gardening. The
research uniquely evaluates how these theories found expression at
Strawberry Hill. This reassessment of the villa and its associated
l
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