Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 476
Fig. 282.—Oxe Bay of Dome Decoration, Radcliffe Library, Oxford, BY GiBBS. of the new style, in which Italians were often employed.Later 18th-century work is less vigorous and interesting. The Adam Style. Robert Adam (1727-1792) was the most celebratedof four brothers,^ who worked together on a… … variety of important buildings and blocks of houses inLondon and Edinburgh. In this work they developed,especially in interior design and furniture, the Englishphase of the reaction towards purity, refinement anddelicacy of detail, which we have noticed in Franceunder Louis Seize (see p. 257).…
Decoration and ornament
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