The Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

ISBN-13: 9781474455268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 672 str.

John Lowrey; Louisa Humm;Mackechnie

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; SETTING THE SCENE; Introduction, Aonghus MacKechnie; 1. Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland, Allan Macinnes; CLASSICISM AND THE CASTLE; 2. The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic Signifier, Ian Campbell; 3. Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in The Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 Union, Aonghus MacKechnie; 4. Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the Castle, John Lowrey; 5. A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and Romance, Iain Gordon Brown; THE BUSINESS OF BUILDING, TRADES, MATERIALS AND PATTERN BOOKS; 6. Scottish Ironwork 1660-1730, Ali Davey and Aonghus MacKechnie; 7. The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Anna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo; 8. Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: an Englishman and the best plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland, William Napier; 9. Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate Book, James Legard; THE COUNTRY HOUSE; 10. The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645-1731) within the European Context; Cristina González-Longo; 11. From England to Scotland in 1701: The Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith Palace, Sally Jeffery; 12. Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne, Clarisse Godard Desmarest; 13. Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Rory Lamb; 14. Mannerism in the work of John Douglas in Eighteenth Century Scotland, Dimitris Theodossopoulos; GARDENS; 15. ‘The inexpressible need of enclosing and planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland 1660-1750, Christopher Dingwall; 16. The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth Century, Marilyn Brown; 17. Alexander Edward’s European Tour, John Lowrey; 18. William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland 1720-1745, Louisa Humm; 19. Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian retreat at Arniston?, Nick Haynes; URBAN ARCHITECTURE; 20. Town Housing and Planning: McGill, Gibbs and Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow, Anthony Lewis; 21. Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth Century University Libraries, Deborah Mays; 22. Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities, Giovanna Guidicini; 23. Living Horizontally: The Origin of the Tenement in Paris and Edinburgh, Clarisse Godard Desmarest; 24. William Adam’s Public Buildings, David W Walker; CONCLUSION; 25. Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’?, Ranald MacInnes; Abbreviations; End Notes; Index