Hardwick Hall Flashcards
1
Q
How is wealth displayed
A
- glass
- materials
- decorations + furniture (Flemish,French, Turkish)
- modern design - symmetry - large
- great hall, great chamber, long gallery
- gardens
- fireplaces + chimney
- detailing + panelling
2
Q
How is power/status displayed?
A
- wanted a legacy
- heraldry - coat of arms
- ES
- portrait of Queen - social circle
- portraits
- painting themes varied for different statuses
- ceremonial route to great chamber - Daise
- foreign decorations
- windows get bigger - great chain of being
3
Q
How is new designs/techniques displayed?
A
- renaissance influence - loggia
- foreign decorations + furniture
- symmetry
- smythson architect - modern
- M shaped roof - lead
- spiral stone stairs
- panelling + detailing
- long gallery
4
Q
How are changing times/cultural changes displayed?
A
- symmetry, balance
- windows
- long gallery
- geometric gardens
- renaissance influence - loggia
- foreign decorations
- modern - no medieval defence
- made for pleasure + to impress
- 2/3 piles
- M shaped roof
5
Q
How is heritage/ rise of the gentry displayed?
A
- Bess gentry -> nobility
- heraldry - coat of arms
- ES
- tapestries replaced w arms
- portraits
- wanted a legacy
- large + impressive
6
Q
How is business investments displayed?
A
- lead factories - M shaped roof, 2/3 piles
- slate, stone, timber, glass
- wing field glassworks
- new technology - water wheels
- sold products
BUT - got most financial stability from husbands
7
Q
How is impressing the royal court displayed?
A
- portraits - queen
- impressive, large
- shows wealth
- daise = throne
- symmetry
- foreign decoration / renaissance
- heraldry
