How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 282
to force creation whiledeploring the lack of taste and refinement in their rulers.Sir Christopher Wren, who did so much for the Renais-sance in England, lived well into the reign of the FirstGeorge. He had continued the custom of studying Pal- 258 THE GEORGIAN PERIOD OF ENGLAND ladio and the laws… … FIG. IOI—CITY HALL, NEW YORK (ENGLISH RENAISSANCE) He was followed by John Gibbs, Sir John Vanburgh,Sir William Chambers, and others among the architects,and by Chippendale, Thomas Johnson, Grinling Gib- 259 HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE bons, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Pergolesi, and the brothersAdam among…
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