|
|
Article: Why Wren wept over St Paul's. (book review)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: HUGH MASSINGBERD
His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood Jonathan Cape [pound]25 ([pound]22.50 - 0870 165 0870) **** (RECOMMENDED)
Discover St Paul's - a spectacular family adventure,' urge the latest tourist posters, as if Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, the first English cathedral to have been built by a single architect, were a theme park. Adrian Tinniswood's fresh, lively and readable biography of our best-known architect certainly takes the reader on an entertaining ride of discovery through the 17th and early 18th Centuries.
The book's title is apt, for the diminutive, pragmatic and practical 'Kit' Wren (1632-1723) was ...