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Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
In 1840, British architect George Wightwick published a world history of architecture in the Romantic mode, inviting readers to enter a vast garden where Buddhist iconography rubs shoulders with Greek temples and Egyptian pyramids gaze upon Gothic ca…The Public Domain Review
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