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Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)

Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 104

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otnote to the Preface ofthe Works, the brothers incidentally make an allusion to Cinque-cento work. In the time of Raphael, Michael Angelo, JulioRomano, Polidoro, Giov. dUdine, Vasari, Zuchero and Algardi,they wrote, there is no doubt there were much greater remains ofthegrotte^ than what are now… … Fig. 51.—Plaster BAS-RELiiiF,Harewood House, London.(See Fig. 202.) 74 THK LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM were decorated the lougrias of the Vatican, the villas Madama,^Pamfile,- Caprarola,- the old palace at Florence/ and indeed what-ever else is eleorant or admirable in the finishings of…

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture

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