Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000
The Master Builders
By James Fenton
Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings
by Lydia M. Soo
Cambridge University Press, 320 pp., $64.95
The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren
by Paul Jeffery
The Hambledon Press, 385 pp.
Inigo Jones
by John Summerson, by Sir Howard Colvin
Yale University Press, 148 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730
edited by Christopher Ridgway, edited by Robert Williams
published in association with the National Trust, Sutton, 242 pp., $42.50
Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology
by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
University of Chicago Press, 179 pp., $37.50
Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John Vanbrugh: the founding fathers of English classical architecture. Jones brought the classical style to England under the first Stuart kings. Wren, the mathematician, astronomer, and anatomist, turned himself into an architect after the Restoration, and rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666. Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh share credit for the English Baroque. Much has been written in celebration of their achievement, and yet much, it seems, remains to be discovered.
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