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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Eighteenth-century architecture"”.
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century architecture was …
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Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and John Soane, 1793–1815
… principles and aims of the Picturesque in architecture—among them, the grounding of a house within its surrounding landscape, a greater eclecticism of style and embrace of asymmetry, an emphasis on views and view-points, a concern with issues of framing and movement and a re-examination of …
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James Gibbs's Early Career: The Formation of a European Architect
… the architectural context of Rome in the early eighteenth century and at the identities of Gibbs’s architectural masters. Honing in on the most important of them, Carlo Fontana, it gives an account of Fontana’s studio, how it functioned, and who its most important members were during Gibbs’s …