A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 Girouard Mark
The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean agesThis long-awaited work of scholarship provides a…
Specifikacia A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 Girouard Mark
The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean agesThis long-awaited work of scholarship provides a comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. With characteristically deft prose, Mark Girouard draws on a lifetime of experience in the study of architectural history to assess the impact of some six hundred master craftsmen, surveyors, designers and patrons at work between 1540 and 1640. Surveying a period not covered by other dictionaries, this book is a key text for students and scholars of British architecture and its allied arts between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Mark Girouard's lively comments and felicitous style also make it an enjoyable browse for anyone interested in the