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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1760-1769 (alteration)en_US
dc.creatorAdam, Roberten_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-25T21:25:17Z
dc.date.available2013-01-25T21:25:17Z
dc.date.issued1760-1769
dc.identifier186374en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1774en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/95568
dc.descriptionDescribed by Sir John Betjeman as 'the Grand Architectural Walk', Syon House and its 200 acre park is the London home of the Duke of Northumberland, whose family have lived here for over 400 years. Originally the site of a medieval abbey, Syon was named after Mount Zion in the Holy Land. At Syon House, London, between 1760 and 1769, Adam took a quadrangular Tudor nunnery with a later Jacobean long gallery, which had been somewhat adapted for greater aristocratic comfort, and transformed it into what Horace Walpole was to describe as ‘another Mount Palatine’. He created a series of rooms of varied and unusual shapes, partially derived from Roman Baths; these he ornamented with lively decoration, also reflecting Classical influences, ranging from apses screened by columns to statuary, grotesques and trophy panels. Responding to the demands of fashionable society, these were spaces intended for various functions that not only were appropriate for those functions but delighted the eye by their variation and ornamentation. This would have been carried even further had he been allowed to fill Syon’s interior courtyard with a great circular saloon, as he had intended (the cost was prohibitive).; Described by Sir John Betjeman as 'the Grand Architectural Walk', Syon House and its 200 acre park is the London home of the Duke of Northumberland, whose family have lived here for over 400 years. Originally the site of a medieval abbey, Syon was named after Mount Zion in the Holy Land. At Syon House, London, between 1760 and 1769, Adam took a quadrangular Tudor nunnery with a later Jacobean long gallery, which had been somewhat adapted for greater aristocratic comfort, and transformed it into what Horace Walpole was to describe as ‘another Mount Palatine’. He created a series of rooms of varied and unusual shapes, partially derived from Roman Baths; these he ornamented with lively decoration, also reflecting Classical influences, ranging from apses screened by columns to statuary, grotesques and trophy panels. Responding to the demands of fashionable society, these were spaces intended for various functions that not only were appropriate for those functions but delighted the eye by their variation and ornamentation. This would have been carried even further had he been allowed to fill Syon’s interior courtyard with a great circular saloon, as he had intended (the cost was prohibitive). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/15/2009)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdecorative artsen_US
dc.subjecthistoricalen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.subjectRenaissanceen_US
dc.subjectTudoren_US
dc.titleSyon Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-E-L-SH-A5en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypecountry houseen_US
dc.contributor.displayRobert Adam (British architect and interior designer, 1728-1792)en_US


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