"1966, they collaborated with Nikolaus Pevsner to produce ""The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture"" (2nd edition 1972), and in 1977 they wrote ""The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts"". ""A World History of Art"" (aka, ""The Visual Arts: A History"") followed in 1982 and the ""Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent"" in 1991. Fleming died in Tofori, near Lucca. John Fleming (art historian) John Fleming (1919–2001) was a British art historian, known for his writing partnership with Hugh Honour. Their ""A World History of Art"" (aka, ""The Visual Arts: A History""), first published in 1982, is now in its seventh"
"Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture. Pevsner is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ""The Buildings of England"" (1951–74), often simply referred to by his surname. Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony, the son of Hugo Pevsner, a Russian-Jewish fur merchant, and his wife, Anna. He attended the St. Thomas School and went on to study art history at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt am Main, completing a doctorate in"
"of England, are held by the Penguin Archive at the University of Bristol.Papers relating to the work of the Victorian Society during his years as chairman are held by the Victorian Society themselves and the London Metropolitan Archives. (Victorian Society archives) Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture. Pevsner is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ""The Buildings of England"" (1951–74), often simply referred to by his surname. Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony,"
"The English House The English House is a book of design and architectural history written by German architect Hermann Muthesius and published in 1904. Its three volumes provide a record of the revival of English domestic architecture during the later part of the nineteenth century. The main themes he discusses are history, form and decor. A single-volume edited English language translation was published in 1979. The first full English translation was not for over a century, in 2007. In Part I, Muthesius discusses the individuals involved in the parallel development of architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Muthesius argues"
"William Bidlake William Henry Bidlake MA, FRIBA (12 May 1861 – 6 April 1938) was an English architect, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham and Director of the School of Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1919 until 1924. Several of Bidlake's houses in the Birmingham area were featured in Hermann Muthesius's book """" (""The English House""), which was to prove influential on the early Modern Movement in Germany. Bidlake was born in Wolverhampton, the son of local architect George Bidlake (1830-1892, from whom he received his earliest architectural training), and educated at Tettenhall"
"in conservation at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, where he remained until 1959. These were part-time posts, allowing him to devote much of his time to writing. He had begun to publish articles on medieval architecture in 1936, and his prodigious stream of publications, including numerous books, continued in the post-war years. His magisterial biographical dictionary of ""English Mediaeval Architects"", the first edition of which appeared in 1954, contained 1,300 entries, and has been described as ""a feat of titanic proportions"". A central theme of many of his publications was the artistic importance of England and"
"London in 1973. Between 1970 and 1971 he taught at the University of Manchester and later at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of a number of books on fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth-century art, and a leading expert on Early Netherlandish painting, and his contributions to research and knowledge on the period are on a par with the works of Max Jakob Friedländer and Erwin Panofsky. His 1998 catalogue ""The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings"" has been described as ""standard-setting"". He has published articles with the journals ""The Burlington Magazine"" and ""The Connoisseur"", amongst others. He lives in London"
"catalogue of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's graphic works. In 1939, she was able to escape Nazi-dominated Germany for England. There, she contributed to various art journals, such as ""Architectural Review"", ""Eidos"", ""Connoisseur"" and """". She also assisted Nikolaus Pevsner with collection of material for his series ""The Buildings of England"". She died in the Tate Museum in 1954. Her attempt to donate part of her collection to British museums while she was alive was not well-received and she donated the bulk of her art collection to museums in Germany: Mannheim, Berlin, Altona, Hamburg and Cologne. Other works were sent to museums in"
"she returned to art history. She studied at the Courtauld Institute in London after the war, focusing on the artists of the Tudor court, and wrote a second dissertation on patronage and painting in 16th-century England. This would become the subject of her first published book, ""Tudor Artists"" (1954), the first work in modern times to lay out the documentary sources for the arts of painting and limning in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods. She died in London in 1975. Erna Auerbach Erna Auerbach (Frankfurt am Main 1897–London 1975) was a German-born artist and art historian best known for her"
"for those multi-volume survey of national art familiar on the continent. In particular Georg Dehio's ""Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmaler"", a topographical inventory of Germany's important historic buildings that was published in five volumes between 1905 and 1912. Though Pevsner's ambition for the series was to educate and inform the general public on the subtleties of English architectural history, the immediate commercial imperative was competition with the Shell Guides edited by John Betjeman of which 13 had been published by 1939. With Lane's agreement in 1945 Pevsner began work personally touring the county that was to be the subject of observation"
"English architecture was leading the world. Its influence was international: Lethaby was the most important architectural theorist of the whole movement, and built over half of his work in Birmingham or for Birmingham clients, while the buildings of Birmingham architects such as William Bidlake and William Alexander Harvey were to feature prominently in Herman Muthesius's 1905 book ""The English House"", which was to be revolutionary in its introduction of the Arts and Crafts philosophy into Germany, and a pivotal influence on the later birth of the modern movement. The late-Victorian era of red brick and terracotta gave way to coloured"
"the National Buildings Record (NBR) in 1941 and was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) for twenty-one years, writing the introduction to the book celebrating the NBR's fiftieth anniversary in 1991. He was curator of Sir John Soane's Museum from 1945 to 1984. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1958–59. The term Bristol Byzantine, referring to a style influenced by Byzantine and Moorish architecture and applied mainly to warehouses, factories, and other industrial buildings in the city of Bristol, is thought to have been invented by"
"""Italian art and architecture"", the first title ""Painting in Britain, 1530-1790"" by Ellis Waterhouse was issued in 1953. By 1955, Pevsner produced a prospectus for the series announcing the publication of four new volumes and a plan for the rest of the series totalling 47 titles. The ambition of the series exceeded previously published multi-volume histories of art such as André Michel's ""Histoire de l'art"" (17 vols, 1905–28), the ""Propyläen Kunstgeschichte"" (25 vols, 1923–35). Forty-one volumes were published by the time Pevsner retired from editing in 1977, his work was continued by his editorial assistant on the ""Buildings of England"""
"featuring his photographs of Cambridge buildings and Cambridge town and gown. He did the photography and design for the official guide to King's College Chapel, published in seven different languages. Used extensively by publishers and record companies, many of his pictures have become iconic. For a period spanning several years he produced prospectuses for many Cambridge colleges and independent schools in south-east England. A revised edition of ""Cambridge Architecture"" was brought out by André Deutsch in 1993. His reputation as an accomplished photographer was secured with publication by Frances Lincoln of his book ""Cambridge"" in 2005. According to the book's"
"English national character. His A. W. Mellon lectures in Fine Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., were published in 1976 as ""A History of Building Types"". Pevsner was a founding member in 1957 of the Victorian Society, the national charity for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts. In 1964 he was invited to become its chairman, and steered it through its formative years, fighting alongside John Betjeman, Hugh Casson and others to save houses, churches, railway stations and other monuments of the Victorian age. He served for ten years (1960–70) as"
"England and the United States. Its motto ""Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau"" (from sofa cushions to city-building) indicates its range of interest. The Deutscher Werkbund emerged when the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich left Vienna for Darmstadt, Germany, in 1899, to form an artists’ colony at the invitation of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. The Werkbund was founded by Olbrich, Peter Behrens, Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul and others in 1907 in Munich at the instigation of Hermann Muthesius, existed through 1934, then re-established after World War II in 1950. Muthesius was the author of the exhaustive three-volume ""The English House"" of"
"Helmut Knocke Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a German architecture historian and author. Hemut Knocke studied architecture, with a special focus on the history of building, at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität in his home city, Hanover, graduating in 1983. He has worked for the Cultural heritage inventarisation department and worked at the where the focus of his work was on the built and documentary legacies of the architects Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788-1864) and (1910-1999). He also involved himself in research projects at the university Institute for Arts and Buildings History (""""Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte""""). Knocke is co-author,"
"received her advanced education at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1963, she married Martin Wedgwood, later Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood (1933–2010), the stockbroker and linguist. They had one son, Ralph (born 1964) and two daughters, Julia and Frances. In 1966, Wedgwood was named as joint author with Nikolaus Pevsner of the Warwickshire volume in his The Buildings of England series after Pevsner began to use collaborators to speed the completion of the series. Wedgwood did the initial research for the volume, and then completed significant parts of the work, including the whole of the section on Birmingham. In January"
"Battista Alberti. In addition, Hart's monographs include influential studies of the work of Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, all published by Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The latter monograph was awarded the Best Book on British Art Prize of the American College Art Association in 2005. In 1997 Hart was the curator of an exhibition entitled 'Paper Palaces: Architectural books from 1472 to 1800 in the collection of Cambridge University Library'. This consisted of architectural prints, manuscripts and over 140 rare books and incunabula, and was held in the"
"and they went on to become leading members of the English Arts and Crafts Movement. When the German critic Hermann Muthesius published his admiring and influential study of English domestic architecture, ""Das Englische Haus"" (1904), Pugin was all but invisible, yet ""it was he ... who invented the English House that Muthesius so admired"". An armoire that he designed (crafted by frequent collaborator John Gregory Crace) is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, but was not eligible for a medal, as it was shown under Crace's name and he was"
"aided by notes drawn up by researchers. The first volume, ""Cornwall"", appeared in 1951, and went on to produce 46 architectural guidebooks between then and 1974 of which he wrote 32 alone and ten with assistance. As early as 1954 the series was in commercial difficulty and required sponsorship to continue, a grant from the Leverhulme Trust amongst other sources secured its completion. The series continued after Pevsner's death in 1983, financed in part by the Pevsner Books Trust and published by Yale University Press. Pevsner's approach was of ""Kunstgeschichte"" quite distinct from the antiquarian interest of local and family"
"Hermann Muthesius Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus. Muthesius was born in 1861 in the village of Großneuhausen near Erfurt and received early training from his father, who was a builder. After a period of military service and two years studying philosophy and art history at Frederick William University in"
"correcting ""London 1: the Cities of London and Westminster"" for its reissue in 1962, Pevsner delegated the revision and expansion of further volumes to others, beginning with Enid Radcliffe for ""Essex"" (1965). The gazetteer descriptions of revised volumes do not routinely distinguish between Pevsner's original text and any new writing, but more recent books sometimes supply his words in quotation when the revising author's judgement differs, where a building has since been altered, or where the old text is no longer topical. As well as ""The Buildings of England"", Pevsner proposed the ""the Pelican History of Art"" series (1953– ),"
"studies. Thomas Hudson Turner Thomas Hudson Turner (1815–1852) was an English archaeologist and architectural historian, born in London of Northumbrian extraction. He was educated at Mr Law’s school in Chelsea and then apprenticed as a printer. His great interest in literature and antiquities led to his appointment in the Record office of the Tower of London. He is best remembered for his work ""Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England: from the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century"" published in Oxford/London in 1851. He died shortly afterwards, aged 37, his health having suffered as a result of his"
"also edited the King Penguin series, to suggest ideas for future publications, he proposed a series of comprehensive county guides to rectify this shortcoming. Work on the ""Buildings of England"" series began in 1945, and the first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote 32 of the books himself and 10 with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, which has been extended to cover the rest of the United Kingdom, under the title Pevsner Architectural Guides (now published by Yale University Press). After updating and"
"Howard Colvin Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: ""A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840"" and ""The History of the King's Works"". Born in Sidcup, he was educated at Trent College and University College London. In 1948, he became a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford where he remained until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1963–76, the Historic Buildings Council for England 1970–84, the"
"booklets were so well-received that he began documenting the history and architecture of Jerusalem for a large-format book series, producing a book every other year at his next post, the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, where he became an architectural historian and documenter in 1981. By 1994 he had completed a six-volume series titled ""Architecture in Jerusalem"", with the first five 500-page volumes documenting architecture in Jerusalem's New City and the last volume covering buildings and streets in the Old City. The first volume only was translated into English, French, German, and Italian under the title ""Jerusalem Architecture"". These six"
"unknown, of highly illustrated books on mediaeval architecture. One of the volumes, Lost Cities of Asia, in the series Centres of Art and Civilization, states that it is the first in a new series, each volume focusing on three cities, but subsequent volumes showed it as part of the original series. In many of the volumes the photography was by Wim Swaan and Edwin Smith, shown below by (WS) and (ES). ""This Other London"" (1951, Paul Elek Publishers) ""The Gothic Cathedral"" Wim Swaan (1969)<br> ""Castles of Europe"" William Anderson (WS) (1970)<br> ""Monasteries of the World"" Christopher Brooke (WS) (1974)<br> ""The"
"numerous publications. Among his early clients were the Bollingen Foundation in New York and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, for whom he provided photographs for twenty volumes of the ""Buildings of England"" series. He was Ben Nicholson’s personal photographer for the last ten years of the painter’s life. He went back to work at the Courtauld Institute for twelve years, travelling extensively around Europe to photograph historic architecture and sculpture for the Conway Library at the Courtauld. On his retirement he transferred his collection of negatives of architectural and sculptural subjects to the Conway Library. He returned to freelance work in 1985,"
"church buildings and another on dwelling houses (including vernacular architecture). In 1986, Penguin published an anthology from Pevsner's volumes edited by Bridget Cherry and John Newman, ""The Best Buildings of England"", . It has an introduction by Newman assessing Pevsner's aims and methods. In 2001, the Penguin Collectors Society published ""The Buildings of England: a Celebration"", edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry, fifty years after BE1 was published: it includes twelve essays and a selection of text from the series. In 1997 the BBC broadcast a series of documentaries entitled ""Travels with Pevsner"", in which six writers and broadcasters"
"have done the King Penguins now and we are going on with them, but if you had your way, what else would you do?' I had my answer ready—and the answer was very formidable, because I outlined both The Pelican History of Art and The Buildings of England on the spot, each about 40 to 50 volumes. Allen said, 'Yes, we can do both,' and that was the end of the meeting."" Pevsner's industry quickly bore fruit with the first contracts signed by 1946 for John Summerson's ""Architecture in Britain"", Anthony Blunt's ""Art and Architecture in France"", and Rudolph Wittkower's"
"wanted them to be examined critically. The History of England (Hume) The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in instalments while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his ""History"" was greeted with outrage by all political factions, but it became a best-seller, finally giving him the financial independence he had long sought. Both the British Library and the Cambridge University Library, as well as Hume's own library, still list"
"together with , of the , of which an expanded and updated fourth edition appeared in 2007, and which has become a standard work on various of its themes. He has contributed many of the entries in the Hanover Biographical lexicon (""""Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon"""" 2002) and to the Hanover City Lexicon (""""Stadtlexikon Hannover"""" 2009). Helmut Knocke Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a German architecture historian and author. Hemut Knocke studied architecture, with a special focus on the history of building, at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität in his home city, Hanover, graduating in 1983. He has worked for the Cultural"