{"product_id":"2026100007766-secondhand-architecture-in-britain-1530-to-1830","title":"Architecture In Britain: 1530 To 1830","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition:  Ex-library with usual markings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew subjects in the history of art demand as much disciplined attention and reward it so richly as British architecture, and John Summerson's Architecture in Britain: 1530 to 1830 stands as the definitive scholarly account of three transformative centuries of building. The work chronicles the arc of architectural development from the Tudor break with medieval tradition through the confident classicism of the Georgian era, charting the careers of master builders, the rise of professional architects, and the shifting cultural forces — Renaissance humanism, religious reformation, aristocratic patronage, and mercantile wealth — that shaped the built environment of England, Scotland, and Wales.\n\nSummerson writes with the authority of a historian who spent a lifetime immersed in his subject, bringing a precise yet eloquent prose style to bear on everything from the great country houses of the Elizabethan age to the civic grandeur of Wren, Vanbrugh, and Soane. Published as part of the celebrated Pelican History of Art series, this volume argues that British architecture constitutes a tradition of genuine originality, neither a pale imitation of continental models nor a mere sequence of imported styles, but a living synthesis shaped by island conditions and individual genius. For anyone seeking to understand how Britain came to look the way it does, this remains the indispensable starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130461135067,"sku":"2026100007766-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/94278853-4f10-4ad0-8e1e-1bd8572b6311.png?v=1786585576","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007766-secondhand-architecture-in-britain-1530-to-1830","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}