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

Loftie, William John, 1839-1911 · London, Rivington, Percival · leaf 293

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^i ~r:Ti!i … TJie Successors of JVixu 273 and-twenty years ago. He seems to have cared less for sym-metry than for proportion, and was particularly noted for hismanagement of blank walls. But in London it was not alto-gether the want of a man. Decimus Burton, who designed thescreen at Hyde Park Corner, was very…

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

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