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From Hirmer, with distribution by The University of Chicago Press:

Elizabeth Angelicoussis and Leo Schmidt, eds., with photographs by Pete Huggins, Holkham: An English Treasure House and Its Landscape (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2025), 368 pages, ISBN: 978-3777444444, $65. With contributions by Peter Burman, Polly Feversham, Anne Glenconner, Katherine Hardwick-Kulpa, John Hardy, Uta Hassler, Christine Hiskey, Markus Joachim, Christian Keller, Axel Klausmeier, Werner Koch, Silke Langenberg, Tom Leicester, Laura Nuvoloni, Bernhard Ritter, Christoph Martin Vogtherr, and Tom Williamson.

Created over four decades, from the 1720s to the 1760s, by the highly erudite, visionary, and ambitious Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture. Richly illustrated and with far-reaching essays, this volume invites us to a splendid tour through an incredibly well-preserved house, with all its splendidly furnished interiors and amazing collection of artworks still in place. Lord Leicester designed Holkham as the ideal home and setting for the ancient sculptures, distinguished paintings, and other treasures he had acquired on his Grand Tour. The unique Marble Hall and the Gallery revive and celebrate the virtues of ancient Rome, while the saloons and staterooms vibrate with a baroque sense of grandeur and splendor. With the original family still in custodianship, Holkham is a unique survivor of the golden age of English country house culture.

Elizabeth Angelicoussis is a classical archaeologist and expert on eighteenth-century sculpture collections.
Leo Schmidt is an architectural historian and emeritus professor of heritage conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus.

c o n t e n t s

Foreword
Introduction
1  Thomas Coke, Earl of Leiceser — The Builder of Holkham
2  The Holkham Landscape
3  The Architecture
4  The Rooms and the Collections
5  Living at Holkham
6  Holkham — Past, Present, and Future

Picture Credits
Acknowledgments
Authors and Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index