Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses social structure and the way of life behind Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, the ferment of excitement aroused in English patrons and craftsmen as they learnt about the classic Five Orders and the buildings of Ancient Rome from publications and engravings, and architectural drawings which survive from the period.
Trade Review
“If you are interested in high Elizabethan–style country houses, this is the book for you.”--
Library Journal * Library Journal *
"This wondrous book--written by the preeminent historian of British architecture, and beautifully designed and printed. . . combines sweeping range and a precise grasp of detail."--Ben Schwarz,
The Atlantic
-- Ben Schwarz * The Atlantic *
Winner of the 2010 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, as given by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain -- Alice Davis Hitchcock Award * Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain *
"Girouard's synthesis of his own previous work and the work of other eminent architectural historians makes the book a very useful reference tool, which is bound to become a key source for students of Elizabethan architecture."—Rebecca Roberts,
Cahiers Elisabethains -- Rebecca Roberts * Cahiers Elisabethains *
Shortlisted for the 2009 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History presented by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and
The British Art Journal -- William M. B. Berger Prize * Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal *
"As one might well expect from a scholar who has dominated his field for over a half century, [the book] is nothing short of magisterial in its authority and encyclopedic in its range. . . . Between the bookends of the 1540s and 1630s, this full, gloriously illustrated (even by Yale's standards), and extensively documented work simply brims with copious examples of virtually every sort of architectural construct characteristic of the chosen era."—Robert Tittler,
Sixteenth Century Journal -- Robert Tittler * Sixteenth Century Journal *
