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John Vanbrugh è stato un architetto e drammaturgo inglese. Fu personaggio vitale ed esuberante della cultura inglese tra XVII e XVIII secolo. Autore di commedie scollacciate ed esponente di rilievo, come architetto, del barocco inglese.
Sir John Vanbrugh (/ ˈ v æ n b r ə /; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
Sir John Vanbrugh (baptized Jan. 24, 1664, London, Eng.—died March 26, 1726, London) was a British architect who brought the English Baroque style to its culmination in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. He was also one of the dramatists of the Restoration comedy of manners.
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John Vanbrugh created many disparate works, and this is a list of many of the notable ones. Castle Howard, c. 1699 [1] (west wing designed by Sir Thomas Robinson only completed in early 19th century). The architect's own house in Whitehall, 1700–1701, known as "Goose-Pie House", demolished 1898.
Commediografo e architetto (Londra 1664 - ivi 1726). Dopo un esordio nel teatro con la realizzazione di commedie dotate di un senso sicuro dell'...
Sir John Vanbrugh, an Englishman of Dutch extraction (known in his earlier days as ‘Van Brugg’ or ‘Vanbrook’), whose extraordinary career encompassed remarkable activities as dramatist, architect, and opera impresario, not to mention erstwhile soldier-adventurer, East India Company man, prisoner in the Bastille, Comptroller of the Works ...
Learn about John Vanbrugh, a versatile and influential figure in the English Enlightenment. He was a playwright, a prisoner, a rival to William Talman, and a pioneer of the ha-ha and the Palladian landscape.
