Main entry:

Riddell, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

'Temple beauties' : the entrance-portico in the architecture of Great Britain 1630-1850 / Richard Riddell.

Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, [2011]
©2011

Description:

xiv, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The Portico -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions -- (i). Portico: Meaning and Form -- (ii). Portico: Form and Meaning -- 3. Summary and Note on Portico Types -- II. From Frontispiece to Portico in Great Britain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frontispieces -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- (ii). Public Buildings: Educational -- (a). Universities -- (iii). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- 3. Porches and Loggia Porticoes -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- (b). Royal Palaces -- 4. Summary -- III. Inigo Jones and the Palladian Portico -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Temple and Church -- (i). Ecclesiastical Buildings -- (a). Antique and Renaissance Precedents -- (b). The Idea of the Temple in Britain -- (c). Inigo Jones and the Temple Realized -- (d). St. Paul's, Covent Garden -- (e). St. Paul's Cathedral -- 3. Summary -- IV. The Baroque Portico -- 1. Jones, Webb, and the Baroque -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- (b). Royal Palaces -- 2. Webb, Wren and the Baroque Church -- (i). Ecclesiastical Buildings -- (a). Webb's Drawings of Porticoed Churches -- (b). St. Paul's Cathedral -- 3. Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh and Archer -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- 4. Fifty New Churches -- (i). Ecclesiastical Buildings -- (a). Churches -- 5. Temple Front and Portico in the English Baroque -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- 6. Summary -- V. The Portico in English Neo-Palladianism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Reinstatement of Inigo Jones and Palladio -- 3. Palladio and Porticoes -- 4. The English Country House and its Functions -- (i). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- (b). Temple Front or Portico? The Aesthetic Choice -- (c). Approaching Palladian Porticoes -- (d). Garden Buildings -- 5. The Disadvantages of Porticoes -- 6. Summary -- VI. Neo-Classicism and the Greek Revival Portico -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neo-Classicism: Imitation and Originality -- 3. Visual Effect: The Rule and the Eye -- 4. Architectural Association -- 5. The Associations of Grecian and Greek Architecture -- 6. The Greek Revival: A Tentative Beginning -- 7. The Greek and Roman Debate -- 8. Greece Revived -- (i). Public Buildings: Educational -- (a). Universities, Colleges and Schools -- (b). Medical Colleges -- (ii). Domestic Buildings -- (a). Houses -- (b). Portes Cocheres -- (c). Lodges -- (iii). Public Buildings: Commercial -- (a). Banks -- (b). Customs Houses -- (c). Exchanges and Markets -- (d). Corporate Headquarters -- (e). Post Office -- (f). Railway Stations -- (g). Hotels, Baths and Assembly Rooms -- (h). Theatres -- (iv). Ecclesiastical Buildings -- (a). Commissioners' Churches -- (b). Nonconformist -- (c). Roman Catholic -- (v). Public Buildings: Civic -- (a). Town and Shire Halls -- (b). Assizes, Courthouses and Gaols -- (c). Libraries and Athenaea -- (d). Hospitals -- (e). Museums and Art Galleries -- VII. The Decline of the Portico -- Summary -- VIII. Conclusion.

ISBN:

9781905739448 (paerback)
1905739443 (paerback)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History.
Porticoes Great Britain History.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Portiques Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture.
Porticoes.
Architektur
Portikus
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283163
Call No.: BIB 221196
Status: Available