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Rosemary Hill, 2 December 1993
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ‘The English Journey’
edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann, translated by F. Gagna Walls.
Yale, 220 pp., £35, July 1993,0 300 04117 9 Show More
edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann, translated by F. Gagna Walls.
Yale, 220 pp., £35, July 1993,
The Modernist Garden in France
by Dorothée Imbert.
Yale, 268 pp., £40, August 1993,0 300 04716 9 Show More
by Dorothée Imbert.
Yale, 268 pp., £40, August 1993,
“... By 1815 London was the biggest city anyone had ever seen. It was the most stable and prosperous Western metropolis and had been enriched further by a flood of Continental refugees and by works of art similarly cast loose on a tide of war and revolution. There was now an interest in European painting among the British unequalled since the days of Charles I, and despite the war, English art and architecture, in particular the Gothic and the landscape garden, had many admirers in France and Germany ... ”
