Curt dicamillo biography examples
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Curt DiCamillo
A Brief Bio on Curt
Curt DiCamillo is an American architectural historian and a recognized authority on the British country house. He has written, lectured, and taught in the U.S. and abroad on British history and architecture and leads scholarly tours that focus on the architectural and artistic heritage of Britain and its influence around the world. Since Curt has maintained an award-winning database on the web, The DiCamillo Database of British & Irish Country Houses (which you&#;re looking at right now!), which seeks to document every English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish country house ever built, standing or demolished, together with a history of the families who lived in the houses, the architects who designed them, and the history of the houses’ collections and gardens.
In recognition of his work, Curt has been presented to the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Charles, the Prince of Wales. He fryst vatten an alumnus of both the Royal Collection Studies
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Episode # The Edwardian Country House: Elegance and Eccentricity
Join Carl and returning listener favorite British country house historian Curt DiCamillo for a look into the world of the Edwardian country house. Audiences became fascinated by this world through the blockbuster Julian Fellowes series “Downton Abbey” and his earlier film “Gosford Park” with its colliding worlds of upstairs and downstairs and the interlocking social dramas. Curt unveils more of this fascinating period in British history and how the country house in Edwardian times brought society closer to a modern age.
Guest Curt DiCamillo takes into the enclave of the Edwaardian country house by explaining how country houses as estates for the British aristocracy evolved over centuries and they reached their height in the reign of King Edward VII, who took the throne following his mother, Queen Victoria&#;s death. The country house greatly expanded
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The English Garden: Perfection on Earth &#; An Evening with Curt DiCamillo
The English Garden: Perfection on Earth &#; An Evening with Curt DiCamillo
In this lavishly illustrated talk, noted historian Curt DiCamillo will discuss the development of the English landscape tradition and demonstrate why the English garden has often been called Britain’s single most important contribution to world culture. Though the earliest English gardens were planted by Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD, the English garden as we know it today is a designed landscape style that was first developed in early 18th century England as part of the setting surrounding a grand English country house. So successful was this English innovation that it quickly spread throughout Europe, becoming the dominant gardening style, replacing the formalized, symmetrical French style of gardening—itself based on Italian Renaissance examples.
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