Herbert Percy Horne (1864 in London – 1916 in Florence, Italy) was an English poet, architect,

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and designer, art historian and

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. He was an associate of the

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in London. He edited the magazines '' The Century Guild Hobby Horse'' and ''

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'' for the Century Guild of Artists, which he founded with fellow architect

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (12 December 1851 – 15 March 1942) was a progressive England, English architect and designer, who influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement, notably through the Century Guild, Century Guild of Artists, which he set ...

in 1882. Horne was closely associated with

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and

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and their mistress Muriel (Edith) Broadbent. Later in life he settled in Florence, restoring a Renaissance palazzo into which he eventually moved. He first visited Italy in 1889 and kept an illustrated journal of his travels and art and architectural research. His monograph on

Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli ( ; ) or simply known as Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 1 ...

from 1908 is still recognised as of exceptional quality and thoroughness.

Death and commemoration

He donated his collection, of arts and handicrafts of the 14th and 15th centuries, to create the '' Museo della Fondazione Horne'' in Florence, where he died. He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence,

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(Italy). Horne founded the Riccardi Press, a leading British private press that beginning in 1909 issued titles for the Medici Society and later under its own imprint.

Selected publications

* ''Diversi Colores'' (poems). 1891.
''The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings.''
London 1894 * ''Giovanni dal Ponte.'' 1906.
''Alessandro Filipepi, commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence.''
1908; reprint: Princeton University Press 1981,

References

*''Rediscovering Herbert Horne: Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian (1880–1920 British Authors Series, No 3)'', Ian Fletcher *

Edward Chaney Edward Chaney (born 1951) is a British cultural historian. He is Professor Emeritus at Solent University and Honorary Professor at University College London (School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) – Centre for Early Modern ...

and Jane Hall, 'Herbert Horne's 1889 Diary of his first Journey to Italy', The Walpole Society, LXIV (2002), pp. 69–125

Death and commemoration

Selected publications

References

Further reading