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Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed by Roy Strong
$60.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and most interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century. Roy Strong and his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman - two pivotal figures in the art ...Show more
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003 by Sir Roy Strong
$28.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMESScenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citize ...Show more
Sir Portrait: 30 Portraits of Roy Strong by Sir Roy Strong
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
How does the former Director of the nation's greatest collection of portraits celebrate his 80th birthday? The distinguished photographer John Swannell and Roy Strong have devised a series of thirty portraits that transport Roy through time, inventing and reinventing him as an array of historical charac ...Show more
The Elizabethan Image - An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 by Roy Strong
$85.00 AUD
Category: History
Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our first Elizabethan age From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and ...Show more
The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden by Roy Strong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Published in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Quest for Shakespeare s Garden traces the origins of garden history and the Elizabethan garden, as well as telling the story of the Bard s own garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. Beautifully presented, the text is accompanied by quotations f ...Show more
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015 by Roy Strong
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
The third volume of Roy Strong's diaries cover the years 2004 to 2015. In January 2004 Strong was in a state of deep grief following the death of his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, three months earlier. Yet the diaries written in this first year following Julia's death offer a picture of determination and ...Show more
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