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The original Chiswick House was a Jacobean house owned by Sir Edward Wardour, and possibly built by his father. [3] It is dated c. 1610 in a late 17th-century engraving of the Chiswick House estate by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff, [4] and was constructed with four sides around an open courtyard. [4]
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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 ...
Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian, neoclassical villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow. It was inherited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753) and used as a summer retreat to get away from London. The architecture is an aatempt to create a Roman villa situated in Roman gardens. There have been many ...
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