Shakespeare in stone: the national trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries.(ARCHITECTURE)

Apollo | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

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'Sir John Vanbrugh', wrote the historians Avray Tipping and Christopher Hussey in 1928, 'provides the rare and stimulating spectacle of an original mind brought freshly to bear on architecture when already fully developed'. The lives of most great architects are not very interesting--they tend to be self-obsessed and workaholic, after all--but Vanbrugh's was extraordinary. Soldier and herald, imprisoned in the Bastille as a possible spy, poet, playwright, wit and member of the celebrated Kit-Cat Club, he turned to architecture only later in ...

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