A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 164
uld thus have brought the two great buildings of the cityinto direct relation, and made one of those superb vistas suchas he had proposed in vain for the rebuilding of London, andafterwards suggested at Hampton Court. CHAP. VII] SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 131 The special strength of Wrens genius lay in… … CHAPEL OF WOLVESEY PALACE, WINCHESTER. detail. Wren was a true child of the Renaissance in this, fairlyclaiming kinship with Bramante and Michael Angelo, with theFrench architects of Louis Quatorze, and with his great fore-runner, Inigo Jones. The inevitable result of the Renaissancehas been that…
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