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How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)

Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 289

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, we have the black-haircloth period,the memory of which is still with us. This oddly parallelsan artistic retrogression in other countries. William Morris and the brilliant group of artists asso-ciated with him in the latter half of the nineteenth cen- 265 HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE tury, in the… … FIG. 104—DOORWAY IN NEW YORK CITY (GREEK) and literature of Italy, and applied their discoveries withsplendid effect. Gilbert and Sullivan, who gave us the im-mortal Pinafore and The Mikado, belonged to thegroup of men in this movement. Though they did not 266 THE GEORGIAN PERIOD OF ENGLAND deal…

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