Identifier: robertadamhisbr00swar (find matches)
Title: Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Swarbrick, John, b. 1879
Subjects: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Adam, James, d. 1794 Architecture
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t**^ ^V^^ Fig 50. A CORNER OF THE ENTRANCE HALL, KEDLESTON, DERBYSHIRE. SOURCES OF ADAM CEILING DECORATION 73 ancient sepulchres, where the stuccos are remaining vastly entire ; theyare of excellent workmanship, and of the lowest relief I ever beheld ;but their being close upon the eye made that more necessary. JamesAdam also wrote : At Pompeii, I saw a room which seemed tohave been painted with arabesques. Another source, from which thebrothers obtained additional assistance in the design of ceilings andbas-relief treatments, was the Italian decorative work of the sixteenthcentury, or Cinquecento, to which reference has already been made(p. 24). This work was sug-gested by the then recently dis-covered remains of decoration atthe Baths of Titus at Rome.From these remains Raphael ob-tained the suogestions which heeventually developed in the de-sign for the Loggie at theVatican, which bears his name.The execution of this work wasentrusted by Raphael to hispupils, who carried out thesch

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