Nathaniel Clements 1705-77

"This book argues that Nathaniel Clements was an enlightened patron of architecture, not a practising architect., and that he influenced upper-class residential development in Dublin and popularised a particular form of Palladian 'villa-farm' (or modest country house) partly because of who he was -- a high-ranking and well-connected government official and an arbiter of fashion and taste. The two places where his architectural influence is still strongly felt today are the high-fashion enclave of Henrietta Street, Dublin, of which he created about one-third in the period 1733-c. 1740, and the Phoenix Park, of which he was Ranger, where he made important improvements to the landscape and where he built in 1752-7 a new Ranger's Lodge which forms the nucleus of today's Áras an Uachtaráin. The book provides a detailed analysis of these aesthetic achievements and (following Clements' death) of the re-casting of the Ranger's Lodge as a British viceregal residence during the period 1782-c.1800. It concludes with a broader discussion of the 'amateur' tradition in British and Irish architecture and of Clements' place among the 'amateurs' who dominated the art form in the decades before the coming-of-age of a fully fledged architectural profession."--Book jacket.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

הוצאה

Four Courts Pr Ltd

מהדורות

1

עמודים

320

ISBN

9781851829149

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata