Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
By Giles Worsley.
Description
This comprehensive survey of British architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries offers a reassessment of the styles, of the major designers from Inigo Jones to Sir John Soane and of the influence of British architecture during that era. The author notes that architectural styles do not always supersede one another but can co-exist, although one style may be dominant. Focusing on the Palladian classical tradition, introduced by Inigo Jones in the 1610s, he shows that this tradition did not die out with Jones's death and revive only during the first half of the 18th century, as is commo...
ISBN(s)
0300058969, 9780300058963
