Architecture, authority, and the female gaze : planning and representation in the early modern country house

Author

Friedman, Alice T.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Assemblage. 1992, Num. 18, 40-61, 20 ill.; 10 plans

ISSN

0889-3012

Abstract (en)

Relates developments in the English country house in the Elizabethan period to female patronage; examines evidence regarding planning, gender relations, and household structure, as well as the ideological context of domestic planning, and attitudes toward family, sexuality and the female body. Considers Hardwick Hall a watershed because its patron, Bess of Hardwick, was a woman, and because Smythson's design radically altered the typology of the English country house by placing the great hall at the center of a symmetrical plan.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- United Kingdom
• Country houses and châteaux
• Great Britain
• 1500-1700
• Elizabethan (style)
• England (GBR)
• Architecture
• Patronage
• Women
• Gender (sex)
• Domestic life
• Hardwick Hall!!Derbyshire (GBR)
• Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of, ca.1520-1608
• Commissions
• Smythson, Robert, ca.1535-1614

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Royaume-Uni
• Château
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1500-1700
• Elisabéthain (style)
• England (GBR)
• Architecture
• Mécénat
• Femmes
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Vie domestique
• Hardwick Hall!!Derbyshire (GBR)
• Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of, v.1520-1608
• Commande d'oeuvre d'art
• Smythson, Robert, v.1535-1614

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00336650

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