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Auteur(s) : Jervis, Simon (1943-....)
Dodd, Dudley
Titre(s) : Roman splendour, English arcadia [Texte imprimé] : the pope's cabinet at Stourhead / Simon Swynfen Jervis and Dudely Dodd
Publication : London : Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (304 p.) : ill. ; 31 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 222-230. Index
At Stourhead in Wiltshire, the Palladian mansion contains an extraordinary Roman cabinet
glittering with gilt-bronze mounts, semi-precious stones and elaborate architectural
ornament. Its façade conceals over 125 more-or-less secret drawers. The cabinet was
brought to Stourhead in 1740 by Henry Hoare 挙1;the Magnificent挙2;, of the Hoare banking
dynasty; he had purchased it in Rome as made for Pope Sixtus V, the great rebuilder,
whose papacy, from 1585 to 1590, coincided with the Spanish Armada. The superb quality
of the 挙1;Sixtus Cabinet挙2; became apparent during restoration in 2006-7 and this
prompted an investigation into its history. This book commences with a comprehensive
account of the insatiable English taste for Italian 挙1;pietre dure挙2;, from the sixteenth
century to the twentieth, and follows with a survey of the Roman pietre dure industry,
hitherto unjustly neglected by comparison with Florence. A description and stylistic
analysis of the cabinet itself precedes a trail of detection which takes it back to
Pope Sixtus挙2;s Roman villa, and then explores its tortuous descent through the Pope挙2;s
family to sale in 1740. Henry Hoare挙2;s grand tour and his purchase of the cabinet
led to its installation in a cabinet room at Stourhead, surrounded by Old Masters
and with a new pedestal of triumphal arch form, incorporating reliefs of Pope Sixtus
and his Roman monuments. Later his great-nephew, Sir Richard Colt Hoare created a
new cabinet room, with embellishments by Thomas Chippendale the Younger. Horace Walpole
and William Beckford were among the admirers of the cabinet, the focus of this remarkably
wide-ranging study of Italian and English artistry, patronage and taste.0
Sujet(s) : Ébénisterie -- Angleterre (GB) -- Wiltshire (GB)
Marqueterie de pierres fines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781781300244. - ISBN 1781300240
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44357110v
Notice n° :
FRBNF44357110
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