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Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England (1893)

Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911 · New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 76

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, all deeply recessed, so as, in fact,almost to make three separate apartments. The wainscotingshows the gradual approach of the Palladian style, being whollydifferent from that in the older parts of the house, where Gothicstill asserts itself Something very like a composite capitalcrowns each… … J z 5 < ■X. < Elizabethan ArcJiitcctiirc 59 Haddon, being a combination of tlie formal and the naturalwhich commends itself to both schools of afardeners. Thearched balustrading is very characteristic of the Elizabethanstyle, while recollections of the Gothic practice had not yet beenwholly…

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 · Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 · Architecture

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