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Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the Chiswick district of London, England. A "glorious" [1] ... a circus, and a magic lantern festival. ...
The Deer House with its Egyptianesque Vitruvian door surrounds. The gardens at Chiswick were filled with fabriques (decorative garden buildings) which illustrated Lord Burlington's knowledge of Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Renaissance architecture, and statues and architecture which expressed his Whig (and very possibly Jacobite) ideals.
Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence of Andrea Palladio as his library list at Chiswick indicates. He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French architects, sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, Philibert de l'Orme, Abraham Bosse ...
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Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery.
Throngs welcomed the Lantern Festival in cities across the world’s second most populous country with 1.4 billion people. Beijing hosted a slew of lantern festival events across the city.
Map of Sutton Court and Chiswick House by Peter Potter, 1818. Chiswick House is on the right in its landscaped grounds (dark green); the "river" (blue) is the remodelled Bollo Brook, and Fauconberg's "The Park" (white), acquired by Burlington for Chiswick House below it. Sutton Court is left centre, the old moated house enclosure to its north ...
The Water Lantern Festival, a USA TODAY 10Best award-winner, transforms cities across the country with a viewing of lanterns designed by attendees that will be launched onto a body of water.