ARTH 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blenheim Palace, Corps De Logis, Nicholas Hawksmoor
23 Feb 2018
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Blenheim palace, woodstock, oxfordshire, united kingdom, john vanbrugh and nicholas. Built for john churchill, duke of marlborough. Not actually a palace, built on the land where previous palace was located. Kitchen was far from dining room), more ceremonial uses. Plan: concave forms, similar to chateau of vaux-le-vicomte, corps de logis, long gallery on either side. Finials, looks like cannonballs being shot out. Rhythmed columns, expands into giant ordered pilasters and columns. Use of giant order in the front door gives the building a sense of unity. Ornamentation: enforces the idea that this building commemorates a war, lion tearing apart a rooster, cannons, bust of louis xiv. Oliver cromwell: takes control after death of charles i with his son. Cha(cid:396)les ii: cha(cid:396)les i(cid:859)s so(cid:374), invited back to england and wanted to be more lenient towards catholics, parliament was not happy. Ja(cid:373)es ii: cha(cid:396)les ii(cid:859)s (cid:271)(cid:396)othe(cid:396), takes the th(cid:396)o(cid:374)e afte(cid:396) cha(cid:396)les(cid:859) death a(cid:374)d is asso(cid:272)iated with france, louis xiv.
