Description

spatter painting

books on level drawings

embroidery designs

a macabre representation of the Tree of Knowledge and Death

Vitruvius Britannicus spatter paintingA consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio for inspiration. These Neo Palladians guided the course of British architecture toward classical principles, and the Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision. A sumptuous collection of magnificent copperplate engravings, it depicts great English

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