Aymonino, Adriano, Enlightened eclecticism , 2021
- Title(s):
- Enlightened eclecticism : the grand design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland / Adriano Aymonino.
- Published/Created:
- London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021.
New Haven : distributed by Yale University Press
©2021 - Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, genealogical table ; 30 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryDA483.N68 A89 2021 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15959408
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-320) and index.
"The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712-86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural styles--Stanwick Hall, Northumberland House, Syon House, and Alnwick Castle--alongside the innumerable objects they collected, their funerary monuments, and their persistent engagement in Georgian London's public sphere. Over the years, their commissions embraced or pioneered styles as varied as Palladianism, rococo, neoclassicism, and Gothic revival. In every instance, minute details contributed to large-scale projects expressing the Northumberlands' various aesthetic and cultural allegiances. Their development sheds light on the eclectic taste of Georgian Britain, the emergence of neoclassicism, and the cultures of the Grand Tour and the Enlightenment."--Jacket flap. - Subject Terms:
- Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.Aesthetics, Modern.Art -- Private collections.Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820.Great Britain.Homes.Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776 -- Art collections.Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776 -- Homes and haunts.Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776.Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786 -- Art collections.Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786 -- Homes and haunts.Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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