House On The Hill
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
House On The Hill
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesised with picturesque aesthetics. The style of architecture that was thus created, though also characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was essentially of its own time. "The backward look transforms its object," Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles;[2] "every spectator at every period�at every moment, indeed�inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature."
The Italianate style was first developed in Britain about 1802 by John Nash, with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire. This small country house is generally accepted to be the first Italianate villa in England, from which is derived the Italianate architecture of the late Regency and early Victorian eras.[3] The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s.[4] Barry's Italianate style (occasionally termed "Barryesque")[1] drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance, though sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate villas.
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March 3rd, 2014
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Chanler Simmons
This is a really unique photo. I like the mysterious look it has about it. Well done and thanks for sharing this creative photo with us. :)
Ken Lerner
Marcia PS -- your choice of POV, slightly off to the right here, is also special as it makes it look like the house is leaning to the right! We all know haunted houses lean like that! Brilliant additional effect!!
Ken Lerner
Marca Not that's a Haunted House!! Superb use of rain on glass and the exact right cloud formation to create this haunting vision! I love it (but I'm not going inside that house!!!!) There is a whole movie in this shot!! (Chances are Jaime Lee Curtis is in it!)