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Article: Telling tales: has Vaughan Hart solved the riddles of Vanbrugh.(Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone)(Book review)
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- February 1, 2009
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Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
VAUGHAN HART
Yale University Press, $65 / 40 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 9780300119299
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Vanbrugh is an intimidating subject for an author. His famous memorandum on the manor of Woodstock is one of the most radical statements on the role of architecture in landscape in the 18th century; Castle Howard and Blenheim are among England's grandest post-medieval buildings; his finest work has a terribilita unique in British architecture. Shunning the mannered while transcending the academic, Vanbrugh, like Hawksmoor, achieves effects of space, composition and detail unlike ...