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{the age of revivals),

Comprises the reigns of George IV. (1820-30), William IV. (1830-37), and Victoria (part of) (1837-51).

INFLUENCES (see page 545). ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER. I.

2.

The

notes on this period are merely given as explanatory of the general course of architecture at this time. The beginning of the century saw Palladianism on the decline, and the introduction of eclecticism as a governing idea in architectural design. On the one hand, isolation from the Continent, due to the Napoleonic wars, shut out new ideas in art, and on the other hand, Stuart and Revett's "Antiquities of Athens" (a.d. 1762), " Robert Adam's " Spalato " (a.d. 1764), Inwood's " Erechtheion


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