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Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)

Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 82

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CENTURY cal matters common to all styles, consists of rather erudite discussion of Vitruviandoctrine. Sir Balthazar Gerbiers two books (1662 and 1663) are likewise com-posed mainly of text, which urges the employment of an architect, then a luxurypossible only for the great. Only the orders were… … From a photograpli by Frank Cousins Figure 33. Cliveden, Germantown, Pennsylvania. After 1763 was included in the translations of Bluoms Quinque columnarum . . . (1600and 1608),3 of Vignola (1665),4 and of Mauclerc (1676). The folio translations ofLomazzo (1598) and of Serlio (1611) contained, in…

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