If you happen to be passing a newsagents which stocks copies of Country Life (not many do), you might like to buy a copy of this week’s issue (January 14th.), which has a cut-down version of a talk I gave in October about Vanbrugh’s changing reputation.
Surprise, surprise, everybody hated his buildings during his lifetime and then gradually came to acknowledge their power – ‘The Shakespeare of Architects’, as John Soane called him.
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