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Há 5 dias · Se hoje sabemos que o seu autor é o aristocrata, membro do parlamento e filho caçula do primeiro ministro britânico, Horace Walpole, à época de sua primeira publicação, próximo ao natal de 1764, os leitores ingleses acreditavam que o texto se tratava, na verdade, de uma tradução moderna de uma história medieval italiana feita por William Marshall. É somente na segunda edição ...
15 de mai. de 2024 · Horace Walpole (1717–97) was the supreme dilettante and witty social commentator of the century. An ‘arbiter of taste’ and connoisseur of the arts, he played a large part in changing fashion and taste, and was proud of influencing others to follow his lead.
Há 14 horas · Born in 1717, Horace Walpole was a man of many talents, serving as a writer, politician, and art collector throughout his life. His passion for the gothic aesthetic was ignited during his Grand Tour of Europe in the 1730s, where he encountered the magnificent gothic cathedrals and castles that would later inspire his architectural endeavors.
20 de mai. de 2024 · The term Gothic novel refers to European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries. The first Gothic novel in English was Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1765).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
8 de mai. de 2024 · The cabinet of miniatures and enamels [art original]. Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, designer. Drawing of the cabinet of rosewood, designed by Horace Walpole himself, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Há 5 dias · Inserted into Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) when the volume was rebound soon after 1844. Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375.
Strawberry Hill House is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture. Strawberry Hill House’s story begins in 1747, when Horace Walpole discovered and purchased ‘Chopp’d Straw Hall’, one of the last remaining sites available on the banks of the Thames in fashionable Twickenham.
