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Article: Sir John Vanbrugh
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Sir John Vanbrugh Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), English architect and dramatist, was one ... heavy loads on thee!" Further Reading The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh was published in four volumes in 1928. For selected plays by ...

Article: Telling tales: has Vaughan Hart solved the riddles of ...
Apollo;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone VAUGHAN HART Yale University Press, $65 / 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780300119299 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED ...

Article: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in ...
The Architectural Review;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...By Vaughan Hart. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2008 [pounds sterling]35 The researches of twentieth-century scholars established the dates and factual details of Vanbrugh's masterpieces like Castle Howard, Seaton Delaval, and garden buildings at Stowe. It is thus now open to

Article: SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ...
The Architectural Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     644 words ...Edited by Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams. Stroud: Sutton Publishing in association with the National Trust. 2000. [pound]25 The most startling disclosure in these 11 essays by different scholars is that Vanbrugh was in. India in 1683-85 as a junior merchant in the East India Company.

Article: Vanbrugh's Indian villa: how did a country house by Vanbrugh ...
Apollo;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Seaton Delaval, that strange and romantic pile by Sir John Vanbrugh in Northumberland, mentioning the recent discovery ... No matter: the real architect was the long-dead Sir John Vanbrugh, whose design for Seaton Delaval was available in ...

Article: "The deep reserves of man": anxiety in Vanbrugh's 'The Relapse.' ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...One of Vanbrugh's attractions for the modern reader is that he is an enlightened writer who problematizes the ideal of female continence and queries the fairness of the Restoration double standard of sexual morality. All his plays take a critical look at the Restoration game of aggressive hunter

Article: Sir John makes a return visit; Architect heads back ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  April 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Northumbrian mansion. The colourful Sir John Vanbrugh returned to Seaton Delaval Hall ... landmark and surrounding 450 acres. Sir John was played by actor Ray Alexander ... assumes the role of architect Sir John Vanbrugh for the Journal-backed Seaton ...