22 Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. List of Figures xvi
7. List of Tables xxix
8. I Setting the Scene
9. Introduction 1
10. 1 Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland 15
11. II Classicism and the Castle
12. 2 The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic Signifier 39
13. 3 Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in the Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 Union 51
14. 4 Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the Castle 72
15. 5 A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and Romance 98
16. III The Business of Building, Trades, Materials and Pattern Books
17. 6 Scottish Ironwork, 1670–1730 121
18. 7 Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: ‘An Englishman and the Best Plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland’ 141
19. 8 The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 156
20. 9 Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate Book 170
21. IV The Country House
22. 10 The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645–1731) within the European Context 191
23. 11 From England to Scotland in 1701: the Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith Palace 213
24. 12 Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenthcentury Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne 233
25. 13 Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 253
26. 14 Mannerism in the Work of John Douglas in Eighteenthcentury Scotland 269
27. V Gardens
28. 15 ‘The Inexpressible Need of Inclosing and Planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland, 1660–1750 293
29. 16 The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth Century 308
30. 17 Alexander Edward’s European Tour, 1701–2 322
31. 18 William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland, 1720–45 346
32. 19 William Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian retreat at Arniston? 379
33. VI Urban Architecture
34. 20 Town Housing and Planning: Alexander McGill, James Gibbs and Allan Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow 407
35. 21 Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth-century University Libraries 429
36. 22 Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities 442
37. 23 Living Horizontally: the Origin of the Tenement in Paris and Edinburgh 455
38. 24 William Adam’s Public Buildings 483
39. VII Conclusion
40. 25 Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’? 517
41. Notes 530
42. Index 613