I had my first introduction to ‘Staging the Baroque’, the exhibition which Roz Barr and Chris Ridgway have organised in three rooms upstairs at Castle Howard to celebrate Vanbrugh’s tercentenary.

One room with a short, but highly informative introduction to Vanbrugh’s life and times, including a couple of letters from the archive and the third Earl’s account books. 

Then, a second room with a massive plaster model of Castle Howard and the monuments in the grounds which makes the point – the grounds are so worth exploring:-

Then a third room with a beautiful film by Thomas Adank.

It encourages you to go out into the grounds and look afresh:-

It’s fabuloso, as always….