Molto stretta ... L'arpa dorata dell'Irlanda più una dama d'oro: Dettaglio dello schermo Tijou in ferro battuto nel palazzo reale di Hampton Court nel borgo londinese di Richmond-upon-Thames, Inghilterra, Regno Unito. I 12 pannelli di metallo ornato che costeggiano il Tamigi furono creati nel 1690 dal maestro fabbro ugonotto francese Jean Tijou (c.1650 - c.1712) per i nuovi monarchi congiunti Guglielmo III e Maria II
2832 x 2832 px | 24 x 24 cm | 9,4 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
30 settembre 2010
Ubicazione:
Hampton Court, East Molesey, Surrey, England, UK
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Hampton Court Palace, in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, England, UK: a gilded winged lady bends her back to an Irish harp with metal strings, in this square format view of wrought and hammered ironwork symbolising Ireland in the Tijou Screen, 12 elaborate panels bordering the re-created Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace, former home of English royalty beside the River Thames. The screen is named after French Huguenot master blacksmith Jean Tijou. He made it in 1690 for his new royal patrons, joint English monarchs William III and Mary II, and it was installed in 1701, first in the Fountain Garden and later at the southern or river end of the Privy Garden. In the far background is the stately Baroque palace designed in 1689 by Sir Christopher Wren to house new royal state rooms and private apartments. Wren's design massively extended the original Tudor palace built in the early 1500s for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and later used by King Henry VIII. Jean Tijou (c.1650 - c.1712) landed in England in about 1689. Away from Hampton Court, he made screens and grilles for London's St Paul's Cathedral and also worked at Kensington Palace and at country houses such as Easton Neston, Burghley and Marlborough. At Chatsworth, he made a grand staircase balustrade and the Golden Gates. Tijou's designs and technique of overlaying iron structures with lavish Baroque sheet metal greatly influenced English metalworking. His 'A new Booke of Drawings, Invented and Desined by John Tijou', published in 1693, was the first English book on ironwork. The Tijou Screen at Hampton Court has been stripped, repaired, repainted and re-gilded many times, although modern research has revealed that the ironwork was originally painted grey, with no gold traces among samples of the original layers. Since Tijou's day, his screens have also been painted dark green or black. D1113.B3287.A
