Background
Strong, Roy Colin was born on August 23, 1935 in London.
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No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.
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No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.
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The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a lost art form. This book sets out to evoke both the people and the ideas that led to the creation of the English Renaissance garden. The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a totally lost art form. Swept away by the exponents of the landscape style in the 18th century, they are now seen in the form of Victorian re-creations around the ancient manor houses of England. But before Repton, Capability Brown and Henry Wise, England had been open to all the impulses that made the Renaissance garden. Up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, the response had been some of the most legendary garden complexes of Renaissance Europe: Henry VIII's Hampton Court, Burgley's Theobalds, Lord Pembroke's Wilton. Intertwined with this story, which touches on the history of politics, art, architecture, literature and ideas, are some of the great figures of the age: Robert Cecil, Francis Bacon, Inigo Jones, Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford, Charles I and Henrietta Maria, John Evelyn and Andrew Marvell. The study includes some visual material in the form of plans, diagrams, views and engravings of the lost gardens of Tudor and Stuart England.
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A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautifully illustrated. SUNDAY TIMES The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and a complex and subtle expression of political theory. From the Renaissance festivals ballet, opera and even the proscenium arch theatre are derived. Festivals are therefore a vital part of European cultural history. Here Roy Strong provides a guide to their origins and purpose, and their lasting influence.
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(The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the R...)
The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and an expression of political theory. Festivals are a vital part of European cultural history. This is a guide to their origins and purpose, and their influence.
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Britain is a country whose history can still be experienced and enjoyed by visiting the great castles, cathedrals, country houses and gardens of the past and by viewing the many historic works of art in museums and galleries. But while much survives, much too has been lost. Through the iconoclasm of the Reformation in the 16th century, the Civil War in the 17th century and subsequent losses due to causes as various as fire and changing fashion, Britian has lost many treaures. Covering three centuries from the Tudor age, "Lost Treasures of Britian" provides a panorama of some of the most famous lost buildings, gardens, paintings, jewels and mauscripts together with a description of their fate.
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People are becoming as conscious of historical style in gardening as they are in interior decoration. In this book, Roy Strong looks at the history of gardening from the point of view of recreating a small garden in a particular style. The illustrations include paintings, prints and photographs.
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This practical guide to planning and creating a traditional garden contains a series of blueprints for gardens in different historical styles, mainly from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and adaptable for gardens of all shapes and sizes, showing how to lay out the basic framework, how to utilise the elements and features of each particular era, and suggesting appropiate period planting.
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"Country Life" is the quintessence of Britain for many. For 100 years, it has reflected and presented an image of rural life to readers at home and provided a lifeline for those abroad. Sir Roy Strong has analyzed the changing role of the magazine over the last century, from the "Arcadian" era pre-World War I, through changes wrought by governments and social movements, to the countryside of today. Illustrated with photographs and original "Country Life" spreads, the book provides a micrcosm of British country life, covering everything from architecture to land ownership, from the rural to the poor to the landed gentry.
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For over three decades Roy Strong has teased, tantalized, amused, and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and more recently as a broadcaster, writer, garden expert, and historian. Provocative on the issues of running a cash-starved museum, above all the diaries are a wonderfully entertaining chronicle of an age and some of its most memorable celebrities.
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These diaries date from the beginning of Strong's career at the National Portrait Gallery. They report all facets of his life - both the political arts necessary to increase the purchase grants and the luncheons and dinners attended.
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( Whether practical or purely decorative, ornament is th...)
Whether practical or purely decorative, ornament is the most immediate way of bringing distinctive character to a small garden, and the very stylish Roy Strong is the ideal guide to the world of garden ornament. In this inspiring book, he shows how to consider size and scale, materials, shape, color and texture, and, crucially, he offers invaluable advice on placing ornament in the garden to best effect. Ornament can provide an accent, create a surprise, enhance or disguise an existing feature, alter a perspective, evoke or complement a mood or feeling. It transforms the mundane and ordinary into something different and special, and makes a statement that reflects the gardener's taste and personality. Choosing from the huge range of available ornament, however, or creating your own individual piece, can seem daunting. Superbly illustrated and including in-depth studies of 12 small gardens where ornament is used with particular success, and often with daring originality, Ornament in the Small Garden breaks free from convention and demonstrates the inspirational decorative possibilities.
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( The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy St...)
The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945. This personal book is the tale of a marriage as much as the tale of a garden, as into the Laskett they etched their own biographies, including many of the people who have crossed their lives and are commemorated within it.
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(Writer, broadcaster and former Director of Britain’s Nati...)
Writer, broadcaster and former Director of Britain’s National Portrait Gallery, Roy Strong here showcases his wide range of interests in this collection of essays: from a meditation on beauty, reflections on the English character, the importance of history, to the consequences of devolution.
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This splendid volume is the first of its kind—a comprehensive history that sets each of Britain's coronations in its political, religious, and cultural context. Meticulously researched, it also examines celebratory poetry and a musical history of extraordinary brilliance. Illustrated with illuminated manuscripts, engravings, portraits, photographs, and images from film and television, this work as rich as its subject.Â
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( This fascinating book tells the dramatic story of the E...)
This fascinating book tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the 21st century. Starting with the Christianization of Britain by missionaries from Ireland and Rome, it journeys through the Middle Ages, when elaboration and beauty in church art and architecture reached their peak in the building boom of the 14th and 15th centuries. It describes in vivid detail the rituals and ceremonies at the heart of the parish community: the processions and celebrations of the church year, the public piety and rites of passage that guided parishioners through their lives and, most of all, the miracle of the Mass performed every Sunday. The rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism was destroyed by the cataclysm of the "long Reformation" in the 16th and 17th centuries, which replaced the splendor of Catholic ritual and its adoration of the Sacrament with a simple service that centered on the preaching of the Word. From the mid-17th century on, reformers tried to repair the damage caused by the iconoclasm of the Reformation by reintroducing images, decoration, and ceremony to the average country church. From the "beauty of holiness," advocated by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s to the liturgical revival of the Oxford Movement in the 19th century, they looked back to the Middle Ages for a tradition of worship that engaged all the senses. In addition, the disintegration of the rural community from the early 19th century would change the social setting of the English country church for ever. Yet despite the dramatic changes that took place inside the parish church over the centuries, the building remained a symbol of continuity, etched into the tableau of the English countryside. Over the last few decades, however, the building itself has come under threat and this volume concludes that, in order to survive, the country church will need to find a new role within a changed countryside.
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This is an anthology of writing about gardens and gardening. Gardens in the imagination, gardens in literature, famous English and non-English gardens, famous gardeners, garden weather, garden work, garden revels, flowers, vegetables, shrubs, grottos, ha-has and statues are all included in this book. Sir Roy Strong is the presenter of the "Royal Gardens" television programme.
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With glorious color photographs, paintings, prints, and original designs, noted historian and author Sir Roy Strong presents Britain's royal gardens of today and yesterday--magnificent designs that reflect the personalities of the kings, queens, princes and princesses who have been and are passionately involved in their gardens.
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This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognized for his expertise in both art history and garden history, surveys garden pictures ranging from Elizabethan miniatures to eighteenth-century alfresco conversation pieces, from suites of paintings of a single garden to amateur watercolors. He inquires into the origin of the English garden picture genre, its development prior to the invention of photography, its greatest exponents, its reliability as historical evidence of actual gardens, and its place within the larger European tradition of picturing the garden. The English, Strong observes, were slow in picturing the reality of their gardens. Until well into the Stuart age, the garden in art served as a symbol, and only gradually did this give way to the impulse to record the facts of contemporary garden-making. In the backgrounds of portraits of Jacobean and Caroline garden owners, the garden is no longer an emblem; it becomes instead a document demonstrating the owners’ pride in their gardens made in the new Renaissance manner. By the Georgian age the garden has moved from the back to the foreground of pictures, and whole families place themselves amid the glory of their self-fashioned landscapes. Both house and garden at this point assume a separate identity, each calling for an individual record. And by the nineteenth century, the author shows, the garden detaches itself from owner and house to be recorded for its own sake, as a single image at first, and later in a series. With some 350 fully annotated illustrations, this lovely book offers a unique record of three hundred years of English gardens and what they meant to those who owned and portrayed them.
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Explores the history of four centuries of royal gardens, from the ostentatious grandeur of Hampton Court to the formal seclusion of Queen Victoria's Windsor, and includes prints, paintings and original designs from the Royal Family's private archives.
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In this masterful book, Roy Strong presents the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times to the present day. It is a story of epic sweep and grandeur, and Strong, with his passionate enthusiasm and wide-ranging knowledge, is just the person to tell it. Lavishly illustrated with 300 photographs and works of art, The Story of Britain will be a standard work for years to come.
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Ron and Reg Kray, the most notorious and vicious gangsters Britain has ever produced, used everything and everyone to get what they wanted—and if anyone got in their way, then they would get in his. That meant getting rid of the competition. Violence was a part of their trade—both in and out of the boxing ring. They used it, or the threat of it, throughout their lives. This book unravels the complex lives of the three Kray brothers, the true extent of their crimes, the duplicitous dealings of Ron and Reg even from behind prison bars. It looks at why Charlie Kray turned to drugs as his only salvation and examines the reasons why some have found the Krays fatally attractive. The Krays: A Violent Business strips away the myths that have grown up around the brothers, going behind the scenes to lay bare the tactics the twins used to ensure they succeeded against all the odds. Painting a vivid picture of the brothers' world, it exposes how they rose to the top of the criminal tree—how they became the biggest, the best, and the most notorious criminals of all time.
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Strong, Roy Colin was born on August 23, 1935 in London.
Graduate, Queen Mary College, University London, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Warburg Institute, London, 1959. Doctor of Letters, University Leeds, 1983.
Doctor of Letters, University Keele, 1984. Master of Arts, University of California Worcester, 2004.
Assistant keeper, then, director, keeper, secretary National Portrait Gallery, London, 1959-1967. Director Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974-1987. Retired
Lecturer England, United States, also contributor to radio and television.
Ferens professor fine art, University Hull, England, 1972. Walls lecturer Pierpont Morgan Library., 1974. Arranger numerous museum exhibitions.
Lecturer, critic, columnist and regular contributor to radio and television.
(This practical guide to planning and creating a tradition...)
(With glorious color photographs, paintings, prints, and o...)
( For over three decades Roy Strong has teased, tantalize...)
(Writer, broadcaster and former Director of Britain’s Nati...)
(Explores the history of four centuries of royal gardens, ...)
(Britain is a country whose history can still be experienc...)
( This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together an...)
( Whether practical or purely decorative, ornament is th...)
(Editeur : Guild publishing Date de parution : 1990 Descri...)
( Ron and Reg Kray, the most notorious and vicious gangst...)
( This fascinating book tells the dramatic story of the E...)
( The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy St...)
( This splendid volume is the first of its kind—a compreh...)
(The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the R...)
( In this masterful book, Roy Strong presents the story o...)
(227 pages of excellent text, filled with beautiful black ...)
(People are becoming as conscious of historical style in g...)
(These diaries date from the beginning of Strong's career ...)
( No other woman in world history has been of such compul...)
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( Catalogue raisonne of the Tudor and Jacobean portraits ...)
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(A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautiful...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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(An essential handbook showing plans for 20 small gardens.)
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Author books on garden design and on life and art of Tudor, Stuart and Victorian England, including, Queen Elizabeth I, 1963, Leicester's Triumph (with J. A. van Dorsten), 1964, Holbein and Henry VIII, 1967, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, others, Elizabeth R, 1971, Van Dyck. Charles I on Horseback, 1972, Inigo Jones. The Theatre of the Stuart Court (with Stephen Orgel), 1974, Splendour at Court.
Renaissance Spectacle and Illusion, 1974, An Early Vitorian Album. The Hill-Adamson Collection (with Colin Ford), 1974, Nicholas Hilliard, 1975, The Cult of Elizabeth. Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry, 1977, And When Did You Last See Your Father? The Victorian Painter and the British Past, 1978, The Renaissance Garden in England, 1979, Art and Power, Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650, 1984, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits, 1988, Creating Small Formal Gardens, 1989, Lost Treasures of Britain, 1990, A Celebration of Gardens, 1991, Royal Gardens, 1992, Small Period Gardens, 1992, Successful Small Gardens, 1994, The Story of Britain, 1996, The English Arcadia, 1996, The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-1987, 1998, The Spirit of Britain.
A Narrative History of the Arts, 1999, The Artist and the Garden, 2000, Garden Party, 2000, Ornament in the Small Garden, 2001, Feast: A History of Grand Eating, 2002, The Laskett, The Story of a Garden, 2003, Passions Past and Present, 2005, Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy, 2005, A Little History of the English Country Church, 2007, others. Exhibitions include National Portrait Gallery, 1968, Tate Gallery, 1969, Arts Council, 1973, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1974, 1979, 83. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Reviewer for newspapers, radio and television.
Member public committee including trustees Chevening House, Council Royal College Art, Fine Arts Advisory Committee British Council, Arts Council, chairman art department, South Bank board (deputy chairman). Garden consultant to celebrities including Hassaram Rijhumal H.The Prince of Wales, Gianni Versace and Sir Elton John. High bailiff, searcher Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey.
President Garden History Society. Fellow Society Antiquaries, Royal Society Literature. Member Royal Archaeol.
Institute, Garrick Club London, Garden History Society (president since 2000).
Married Julia Trevelyan Oman, 1971.