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The Oxford Museum [Paperback]

Henry W. Acland (Author), John Ruskin (Author), John Phillips (Author)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Euston Grove Press (15 July 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1906267197
ISBN-13: 978-1906267193
Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 21 x 0.7 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,735,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A guided tour through key architectural and design philosophies underpinning this marvellous building. Henry Acland, Regius Professor of Medicine, played a key role in the building of Oxford's new science museum in the 1850s. In this essay, he describes expectations for the building - its construction was nearing completion as he wrote. He also discusses its famous connection to the "Gothic style". While guiding readers through some of the building's chief features, Acland leaves no doubt this was a project meant to combine nature and God; reverence and rigour. It's a vision of science that's largely forgotten today. Acland appends two 1858/9 letters from John Ruskin. The great advocate of Gothic design elaborates core principles of this approach and relates them to Oxford's museum. A superb summary of Gothic Revivalism. Acland also adds 1859 correspondence from John Phillips, describing plans to integrate geological materials into the building's decorative features.

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