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Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Gavin Kingcome's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavor of the household in its heyday.
Authors, English --- Artists --- Historic house museums --- Literary landmarks --- Farmhouses --- Gardens --- Bloomsbury group --- Bell, Vanessa, --- Grant, Duncan, --- Bell, Quentin --- Homes and haunts --- Homes and haunts --- Homes and haunts --- Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England) --- Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England) --- History. --- West Firle (England)
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This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Architecture, Roman --- Farmhouses --- Romans --- Architecture romaine --- Maisons rurales --- Romains --- Homes and haunts --- Résidences et lieux familiers --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Dwellings --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Mediterranean Region --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Antiquities, Roman. --- E-books --- Architecture, Domestic. --- Architecture, Roman. --- Architektur. --- Ausstattung. --- Classical antiquities. --- Funktion. --- Villa. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Mittelmeerraum. --- Römisches Reich. --- Roman architecture
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