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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
WITH A BRIEF VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST TO THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
James Elmes |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108080790 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108080798 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
5 March, 2015 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture |
| Pages: |
744 |
| Description: |
This 1823 work, the first biography of Christopher Wren, is based on notes on the family compiled by his son. |
| Synopsis: |
James Elmes (1782-1862), the son of a builder, trained at the Royal Academy Schools as an architectural designer, but his career encompassed publishing and writing on architecture as well. A friend of Benjamin Robert Haydon and his circle, he was the first publisher (in his Annals of Fine Arts) of Keats' most famous odes. This work - the first biography of Wren - was published in 1823, and is dedicated to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, of which Wren was a founder member in 1660. Elmes based his work on the so-called 'Parentalia', or notes on the Wren family compiled by his son (also Christopher), and privately printed by his grandson Stephen in 1750. Elmes puts Wren's life and works into the context of the intellectual ferment of Restoration England, and combines the narrative of Wren's life with an architectural commentary on his most important works. |
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11 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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