God'S Architect: Pugin And The Building Of Romantic Britain Hill, Rosemary

Author: Hill, Rosemary

Brand: Penguin Random House

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 624

Release Date: 23-09-2008

Part Number: 9780140280999

Details: Product Description
Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture.God’s Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.
Review
a very remarkable book about a very remarkable man ―
A.N. Wilson

A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built ―
John Carey

as the readable biography of a most protean and brilliant man, it is worthy of the best of his buildings ―
Colm Toibin

An excellent and detailed biography ―
Peter Ackroyd
About the Author
Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. Her biography,
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. In 2008 she published a prize-winning study of Stonehenge and its cultural legacy. She is a contributing editor at the
London Review of Books, a visiting professor at the University of York, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

EAN: 9780140280999

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English