Kerry Downes
Kerry John Downes (born 1930) is an English architectural historian whose speciality is English Baroque architecture. He is the son of the organist Ralph Downes (1904–93). He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was inspired by the lectures of Margaret Whinney.[1] He has written about (among other things) the English architects Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661–1736), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) and Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), and the Flemish painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). His fellow historian James Stevens Curl has written, "Downes's productivity seems to contradict his claim that procrastination is one of his recreations".[2]
In 1993, a collection of 24 original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends was dedicated to him, entitled English Architecture Public and Private: Essays for Kerry Downes.[3]
Publications
- Downes, K. (19 January 1970). Hawksmoor. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500181034.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (1977). Vanbrugh. London: A. Zwemmer Ltd. ASIN B004H74CP6.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (September 1979). Georgian Cities of Britain. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0714819488.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (1 July 1982). Sir Christopher Wren. Trefoil Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-0862940300.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (November 1982). The Architecture of Wren. Universe Publishing. ISBN 978-0876633953.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (17 September 1987). Sir John Vanbrugh: A Biography. Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 978-0283994975.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (June 1989). Sir Christopher Wren: The Design of St. Paul's Cathedral. Aia Press. ISBN 978-0913962909.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (1 September 2006). Rubens. Chaucer Press. ISBN 978-1904449201.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Downes, Kerry (2007). Christopher Wren. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199534517.
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References
- ^ "Downes, Kerry". dictionaryofarthistorians.org. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ Curl, James Stevens (23 February 2006). "Downes, Kerry John". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ Bold, John; Chaney, Edward, eds. (1 July 1993). English Architecture Public and Private: Essays for Kerry Downes. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 978-1852850951.
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