Rosemary Hill

thumb|Rosemary Hill (2022) Rosemary Hill Royal Society of Literature FRSL, Society of Antiquaries of London FSA (born 10 April 1957) is an English historian and award-winning author. Her book God's Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (2007, Allen Lane) won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award. She was elected in 2008 a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 2010 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Quotes Augustus Pugin Pugin gave Britain's capital cities two of their greatest landmarks, the Palace of Westminster#BIg Ben (Elizabeth Tower) clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, generally, if inaccurately, known as BigBen,1 and, in Edinburgh, the The Hub, Edinburgh spire of Tollbooth St Johns's. He built the first St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham English cathedral since Christopher Wren Wren's St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's and he rThe Grange, Ramsgate einvented the family house. But his influence depended not only, not even primarily, on his buildings, it was both wide and more elusive. He gave the nineteenth century a new idea about what architecture could be and mean. He saw it as moral force in society and as a romantic art. (p. 1)1. It is in fact the bell that is called Big Ben. (p. 536) God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Yale University Press 2008 9780300155754 https://books.google.com/books?id=gNs0hNxtL4QC&pg=PA1 1 (617 pages; 1st edition 2007) The first detailed depiction of Stonehenge to survive is a Watercolor painting watercolour, now in the British Museum, by Lucas de Heere. De Heere was a Flemish people Flemish artist who lived in London from 1567 to 1577 and seems to have made another, less distinguished, contribution to the subject by carving his name on sarsen 53. Meanwhile, despite doubts about its reliability, Historia Regum Britanniae The History of the Kings of Britain, remained popular and its account of Stonehenge was repeated by other authors. Only with the Renaissance, the revival of classical scholarship and the dawn of the New Learning New Learning towards the end of the fifteenth century, did it begin to fall out favour, for the nature of history writing itself was changing. Stonehenge Wonders of the world Harvard University Press 2008 9780674031326 https://books.google.com/books?id=2uNOTdP0DNcC&pg=PA25 23 & 25 (242 pages) Quotes about Rosemary Hill A difficulty for Hill is that many of the Antiquarian antiquaries she celebrates will be no more than names to most readers. But she combats this by selecting details that bring them to life. Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois, for example, co-founder of the Museum of Antiquities (Rouen) Rouen Museum of Antiquities, lived in picturesque squalor in an abandoned convent with an alcoholic wife and children who ran wild among the ruins. He eked out a living as a commercial artist and taught drawing to, among others, Gustave Flaubert, whose portrait he drew....Hill is a magnificent historian and commands a vast range of sources. Her great strength, as she showed in her witty book on Stonehenge, is that she is not inclined just to laugh at what seem ludicrous beliefs. Rather, she carefully unpicks them, showing what made them attractive to their cultures. Time’s Witness is a book to change the way you think about history. John Carey (critic) John Carey, Time’s Witness by Rosemary Hill, review — the craze for antiquity. A magnificent historian on the age of romanticism that inspired artists and was a goldmine for swindlers 13 June 2021 The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/times-witness-by-rosemary-hill-review-b72pb2nhl External links https://rosemaryhill.co.uk Rosemary Hill, Writer and Historian rosemaryhill.co.uk Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Biographers from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Historians from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from London Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1950s