Book
Prodigy houses of Virginia: architecture and the native elite
University of Virginia Press
2008
Abstract
"In Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite, Barbara Burlison Mooney examines twenty-five great eighteenth-century Virginia mansions and offers an analytical overview of Virginia's elite residential architecture from a patronage perspective." "Although it focuses on architectural history, the book concerns itself less with issues of design and construction than with the social and cultural context in which the Virginia gentry commissioned their imposing dwellings. In her examination of such places as Stratford Hall, Carter's Grove, and Gunston Hall - mansions whose grandeur has become synonymous with the image, if not the reality, of life in colonial Virginia - Mooney illuminates the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of the wealthy and powerful owners who built their "homes" with the objective of securing their status and impressing the public." "Prodigy Houses of Virginia will appeal not only to architectural and social historians of the colonial period but also to the general reader interested in these mansions and the people who inhabited them."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Prodigy houses of Virginia: architecture and the native elite
- Creators
- Barbara Burlison Mooney - University of Iowa, Art and Art History
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press; Charlottesville
- ISBN
- 9780813926735; 0813926734
- Number of pages
- ix, 366 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983995691302771
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