A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 347
n idiom and took their place in the line of English tradition..But Wren introduced the disastrous habit of taking detail oni CHAP. XIV] PLASTER WORK 277 trust; with all his skill and genius as an architect, his ornamentto the last was never quite free from a suspicion of the manner- CORNICE AND… … DESIGN FOR CEILING FOR HIS MAJESTYS DRAWING-ROOM AT GREENWICH. (From a drawing at Chiswick by John Webb, 1666.) CHAP. xiv] PLASTER WORK 279 busy or too indifferent to do anything to arrest this decadence.The ornamental plaster work with which he contented himselfin the ceihngs of his churches has…
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