Main entry:

Malcomson, A. P. W., author.

Title & Author:

Nathaniel Clements 1705-77 : politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / A.P.W. Malcolmson.

Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts, ©2015.

Description:

xiv, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-243) and index.
From obscurity to opulence : the career of Nathaniel Clements, c. 1720-77. -- Luke and Henrietta: the career of Luke Gardiner and the origins of Henrietta Street, c. 1700-1730. -- Clements' role in the building of Henrietta Street, c. 1730-57. -- The Sackville Street development and the new bridge, 1749-77. -- The Phoenix Park, the rangership and the old ranger's lodge, c. 1700-75. -- An Elysian seat : the ranger's lodge that Clements built, 1751-77. -- The alienation and alteration of the Ranger's Lodge, 1777-1804. -- The other houses that Clements built?, c. 1750-75. -- Arbiter of taste. -- Amateurs and architects.

Summary:

"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."-- Jacket.

ISBN:

1851829148 (hbk.)
9781851829149 (hbk.)

Subject:

Clements, Nathaniel, -1777.
Art patrons Ireland Biography.
Architects and patrons Ireland History 18th century.
Architecture Ireland 18th century.
Mécènes Irlande Biographies.
Architectes et mécènes Irlande Histoire 18e siècle.
Architects and patrons.
Architecture.
Art patrons.
Ireland History 18th century Biography.
Irlande Histoire 18e siècle Biographies.
Ireland.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292601
Call No.: BIB 236962
Status: Available