With Great Stomack
Simon Schaffer: Christopher Wren, 21 February 2002
His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren
by Adrian Tinniswood.
Cape, 463 pp., £25, July 2001,9780224042987 Show More
by Adrian Tinniswood.
Cape, 463 pp., £25, July 2001,
“... aesthetic peccadillos. He is traced mainly through his lengthy projects as Surveyor-General of the King’s Works, the chief office he held from 1669 until his late, peremptory dismissal at the age of 86 in 1718. Thus the biography sometimes turns into a catalogue of building designs, from university commissions such as Trinity College Library to the host of ... ”