. Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . vB- UL 22 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM Robert Adam on Spalato, and Piranesis etchings of Roman were also certain books, published in France, which assisted, andamong these may be mentioned the works by the Comte de Caylus, byLe Roy on Greece, Cochin and Soufflot on Paestum, and by Houeland dOrville on the Temples of Sicily. The works on art of theAbbe Winckelmann, librarian to Cardinal Albani, and afterwards tothe Vatican, together with those of Lessi
. Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . vB- UL 22 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM Robert Adam on Spalato, and Piranesis etchings of Roman were also certain books, published in France, which assisted, andamong these may be mentioned the works by the Comte de Caylus, byLe Roy on Greece, Cochin and Soufflot on Paestum, and by Houeland dOrville on the Temples of Sicily. The works on art of theAbbe Winckelmann, librarian to Cardinal Albani, and afterwards tothe Vatican, together with those of Lessing, also tended to extendthe interest in antiquity, and to direct attention to the remains inGreece. In the first volume of the Antiquities of Athens,Stuart, after quoting various authorities, wrote : It seemed,therefore, evident that Greece is the Place where the most beautifuledifices were erected, and where the purest and most elegant examplesof ancient architecture are to be discovered. (Compare the Frontis-piece from Adams Works, Fig. 10, p. 15.) This opinion was, atthe time, shared by many ; and sinc
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