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At Stourhead in Wiltshire, the Palladian mansion contains an extraordinary Roman cabinet glittering with gilt-bronze mounts, semi-precious stones and elaborate architectural ornament. Its facade conceals over 125 more-or-less secret drawers. The cabinet was brought to Stourhead in 1740 by Henry Hoare 'the Magnificent', of the Hoare banking dynasty; he had purchased it in Rome as made for Pope Sixtus V, the great rebuilder, whose papacy, from 1585 to 1590, coincided with the Spanish Armada. The superb quality of the 'Sixtus Cabinet' became apparent during restoration in 2006 - 07 and this prompted an investigation into its history.
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• Joseph Friedrich Freiherr zu Racknitz / Simon Swynfen Jervis
• Racknitz's Presentation and history / Simon Swynfen Jervis
• Racknitz and his Presentation and history : an assessment / Simon Swynfen Jervis
• Note on the translation
• Volume I. Presentation and history of the taste of the leading nations in relation to the interior decoration of rooms and to architecture
• Dedicatory letter
• Explanation of the vignettes and the end engravings
• Preface
• 1. Egyptian taste
• 2. Etruscan taste
• 3. Arabesque taste
• 4. The taste derived from the discoveries of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabia
• 5. The noble Roman taste, combined with an outline history of architecture
• 6. Chinese taste
• Volume II. Explanation of the vignettes and the end engravings
• 7. Greek taste
• 8. Old German taste
• 9. Modern Persian taste
• 10. English taste
• 11. French grotesque taste
• 12. Tahitian taste
• Volume III. Explanation of the vignettes and the end engravings
• 13. Greek taste as it approached its decadence
• 14. Moorish taste
• 15. Turkish taste
• 16. Old French taste
• 17. Kamchatkan taste
• 18. Mexican taste
• Volume IV. Explanation of the vignettes and the end engravings
• 19. Ancient Persian taste
• 20. East Indian taste
• 21. Siberian taste, in conjunction with the Russian taste
• 22. Gothic taste
• 23. Modern, supposedly antique taste
• 24. Jewish or Hebrew taste

Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Voelker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four regional historical tastes. He included a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world. This sensitive and informed translation by Simon Swynfen Jervis includes reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz's biography, his publication, and the deeper German Enlightenment context, making this an essential volume for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, decorative arts, and garden design.
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