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Courtauld Institute of Art: Collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, People Associated with the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House

Courtauld Institute of Art: Collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, People Associated with the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, People Associated With the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, le Djeuner Sur L'herbe, a Bar at the Folies-Bergre, Samuel Courtauld, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, Home House, Robert Witt. Excerpt: Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, England, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The central block of the Neoclassical building, the outstanding project of the architect Sir William Chambers, dates from 177696. It was extended by classical Victorian wings to north and south. A building of the same name was first built on the site more than two centuries earlier. Old Somerset House, in a drawing by Jan Kip published in 1722, was a sprawling and irregular complex with wings from different periods in a mixture of styles. The buildings behind all four square gardens belong to Somerset House.In the sixteenth century, the north bank of the Thames between London and Westminster was a favoured site for the mansions of the nobility. In 1539, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, obtained a grant of land at "Chester Place, outside Temple Bar, London" from Henry VIII of England. When the sickly boy-king Edward VI of England came to the throne in 1547, Seymour became Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector. About 1549 he pulled down an old Inn of Chancery and other houses that stood on the site and began to build himself a truly imposing residence, making liberal use of the other nearby buildings including some of the chantries and cloisters at St. Paul's Cathedral which were demolished at the behest of Somerset and other leading Protestant nobles as part of the ongoing Dissolution... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=466528


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157810087
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, People Associated with the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115781008X
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 82 gr


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