A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 176
nt of the technique of his art, and the resultswere seen in artistic fiascoes, such as the Sheldonian. ButWren was a man who picked up knowledge on every hand, andhe was rarely fortunate in his school, for he was allowed to CHAP. VII] SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 141 learn his art on the scaffolding of his… … PLAN AND ELEVATION IN WRENs DRAWINGS. (All Souls College Collection.) quick to make immediate use of actual observation and dis-covery ; he had none of the dreamers disease of inactivity; heseems indeed to have possessed a fertility of invention whichsometimes tempted him to turn out work before it…
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