Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1916)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 101
ique style in a mostsuperb manner. The apartments ofthis palace are full of grotesque orna-ments, but of a kind superior to any Ie\er saw, which made me form theproject of employing a young painterto coi)\ most ot them lor inc tluring m\al:isence. As in the case of other forms ofhg. 52.—Ironwork… … and covered witli fallen ruins, had been iliig up and cleared by the modern Italians,who for these reasons give them the name of grotte . . . It was in this way thatthe Arabesque decorations of the Cinquecento period came to be originally termedgrotesques. The Villa Madama, Rome, erected by Giulio…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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