Architectural colour in British interiors, 1615-1840 / Ian C. Bristow
1996, 1st edition. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391340
ISBN: 0300038666
Physical description; 265 pp.: illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Contents; 1. Introduction: the age of Inigo Jones -- 2. The age of Wren -- 3. The Palladians from 1715 to the mid-1750s -- 4. The coloured neo-classical ceilings of Robert Adam and his contemporaries -- 5. Paint colour on walls in neo-classical interiors -- 6. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: archaeological and exotic influences -- 7. New perceptions of colour: its usage at the end of the period -- Sources: 1 Bibliography -- Sources: 2 Manuscript and other unpublished sources -- Sources: 3 Collections of architectural drawings -- Sources: 4 Pictures and watercolours -- Sources: 5 Other objects, trade cards, &c. Subjects;
Interior decoration Great Britain History. House painting. Varnish and varnishing. Color in interior decoration.
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