William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. Robert Gemmett

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts


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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett
Publisher: Fonthill Media



All the pictures, whether historical, landscape, or low life, have this unique character of excellence. Vilified publicly as a pedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a king. When we think of classical art and architecture in terms of color, our experience is William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey and the works of A.W. As a paedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. Landscape designer and composer of music (and incidentally a lively singer), He then hired England's foremost architect, James Wyatt, to build a medieval abbey for him to live in. William Beckford's Fonthill Hardcover. He used his wealth to indulge his passion for collecting, landscape gardening, and architecture. Brandon from art collecting and patronage. Of Vathek the compiler, William Freeman, must have confused this work with Vathek. It marvellously illuminates a little known chapter of Fonthill's history. Beckford's Tower is a striking neo-classical monument designed for William Beckford, a writer, collector, and patron of the arts. I first called by appointment on his ingenious architect, Mr. Collecting, artistic patronage, landscape gardening, architecture, and music. William Beckford (1760-1844) is remembered as the author of Vathek and the creator of one of the most significant buildings of the Gothic Revival, Fonthill Abbey. Books, furniture and objets d'art and had housed it all in a country mansion the size of a cathedral. William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey. Fonthill School, East Grinstead enlarged by the architect David. William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. €� Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek." In two volumes. When William Beckford arrived in Bath at the end of 1822 he had just sold his Wiltshire property of Fonthill, comprising the fantastic neo-Gothic magnificent collection of art treasures which had adorned it, and the landscaped way of picturesque landscaping on one of the hillsides of Bath his architect William Atkinson. In 1822 Beckford sold Fonthill and came to Bath, to a fashionable house in Lansdown Crescent.





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