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The livery halls of the City of London / (2018)

Lucas, Anya. ; Russell, Henry, 1954- ; Bowman, Charles, 1961- ; [et al.]

London :Merrell,

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almahu_BV045678201

Format: 278 Seiten ; , 32 cm.

ISBN: 978-1-8589-4670-2

Content: For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing a particular craft or profession, were originally responsible for controlling, for example, wages and working conditions. As the Companies were established and incorporated by royal charter, largely in the 14th and 15th centuries, they began acquiring and adapting buildings from which to operate. The Companies' headquarters - the Livery Halls - gradually evolved from large medieval town houses to become an identifiable building type matched in scale and ambition only by the guild houses of northern European mercantile cities and the Venetian scuole. By the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666, there were at least 53 Livery Halls. Of the 40 Halls standing today, half remain on their medieval sites, but all have been rebuilt several times. To give only two examples: there have been six incarnations of Clothworkers' Hall on Mincing Lane and six Salters' Halls on three different City sites. This beautiful book is the first major exploration of these architecturally significant yet under-researched buildings. 0

Note: Text englisch

Language: English

Subjects: Art History

RVK:

LO 56408

Keywords: Zunfthaus ; Halle ; Versammlungsstätte ; Bildband ; History ; Bildband

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Einsiedel, Andreas, 1953-

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The painted Hall : Sir James Thornhill's masterpiece at Greenwich (2019)

Lucas, Anya [VerfasserIn] ; Johns, Richard [VerfasserIn] ; Stewart, Sophie [VerfasserIn] ; [et al.]

London : Merrell Publishers

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Format: 158 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 1858946794 , 9781858946795 , 9781858946801

Content: Published to mark the reopening of the spectacular baroque interior of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich after a landmark conservation project, 'The Painted Hall' is a wonderful celebration of what has been called "the Sistine Chapel of the UK". The ceiling and wall decorations of the Painted Hall were conceived and executed by the artist Sir James Thornhill between 1707 and 1726 - years that witnessed the Act of Union during the reign of Queen Anne and Great Britain's rise to become a dominant Protestant power in a predominantly Catholic Europe. The accessions to the throne of William III and Mary II in 1688 and George I in 1714 form the central narrative of a scheme that also honours Britain's maritime successes and mercantile prosperity. The artist drew on a cast of around 200 figures - a mixture of historical, contemporary, allegorical and mythological characters - to tell a story of political change, scientific and cultural achievements, naval endeavours, and commercial enterprise against a series of magnificent backdrops

Language: English

Keywords: Thornhill, James 1675-1734 ; Old Royal Naval College ; Speisesaal ; Ausstattung ; Wandmalerei ; Restaurierung