An English Michelangelo - damn him! William Kent: architect, designer, opportunist By Timothy Mowl CAPE pounds 25 pounds 22.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

The Independent on Sunday | June 4, 2006| | Copyright

According to Timothy Mowl, the early 18th century was a pretty dismal time: an era of artistic impoverishment and cultural stasis that has somehow "managed to pass itself off, retrospectively, as the Age of Reason, despite its gentry wearing powdered white wigs, enjoying heroic couplets and hailing mediocre portrait painters as great artists". Its most interesting figure was William Kent, an architect, interior deco rator, garden designer and painter who rose from Yorkshire obscurity to a position of the most exalted influence upon English tastes. Responsible along the way for the fashionable ...

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