A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 218
olumns of the five orders, theother like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin with ornamentsof gold. His designs for furniture and the handicrafts ingeneral were about equally inappropriate. Some, however, ofKents architectural designs are by no means wanting in dis-tinction. They are severely,… … i4OPi .- a „O a ;4o CHAP, ix] KENT 177 temple of Ancient Virtue in the Gardens of Stowe, a circularroom with a peristyle of the Ionic order; and the best examplesof his manner are the fagade of the Treasury Buildings to St.Jamess Park, 1734; Holkham in Norfolk; Devonshire House,Piccadilly, built in…
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