Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life
Edited by Toby Barnard and Jane Clark

The importance of the third earl of Burlington (1695-1753) as a patron and practitioner of the arts, especially of architecture, has long been recognised. Indeed he has been credited with sponsoring and engineering the Palladian revival in England. Despite his fame, surprisingly little has been written about him.

This book presents a modern reassessment of his career, while setting him in a broader context than has usually been the case. His achievement at Chiswick House is examined here in detail by Richard Hewlings, who traces Burlington's ideas at Chiswick to exact sources in Classical and Renaissance architecture. His original and outstanding contribution, which constitutes the first half of the book, marks a fundamental advance in the interpretation of Burlington's architecture and its meaning.

Contents: Howard Colvin Lord Burlington Reassessed; Richard Hewlings Chiswick House: Intentions and Meanings; Edward McParland Edward Lovett Pearce and the New Junta for Architecture; Toby Barnard Land and the Limits of Loyalty: The 2nd Earl of Cork and 1st Earl of Burlington (161298); Howard Erskine-Hill The Literary Relations of Alexander Pope and Lord Burlington; Eveline Cruickshanks The Official Politics of Lord Burlington; Murray Pittock The Aeneid in the Age of Burlington: A Jacobite Text?; Jane Clark 'Lord Burlington is Here'. A View without Architecture; Index.
352 pages 1994 150 illus. 255 x 176 mm.
I 85285 094 9 Cased £45.00