by James Lees-Milne · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141390376
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«Earls of Creation» is the art-historical essay by James Lees-Milne, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
James Lees-Milne studies five eighteenth-century English earls —Burlington, Pembroke, Leicester, Oxford and Bathurst— who were patrons and aesthetes, and shows how their tastes shaped British architecture and landscape design. Chiswick House, Holkham Hall and Wimpole Hall, with their gardens, illustrate that influence on English art.
The work was originally published by Hamish Hamilton in 1962; this Penguin Classics edition, from January 2001, belongs to the Penguin Classic Biography series.
Recommended for those interested in art history and architecture, especially British eighteenth-century patronage and the country houses and historic gardens of England.
George James Henry Lees-Milne was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print.
