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Three Englishmen in Rome: Descriptions of Italian architecture by Richard Lassels, John Evelyn and Joseph Addison

Martina Engelbrecht (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Three Englishmen in Rome: Descriptions of Italian architecture by Richard Lassels, John Evelyn and Joseph Addison

My presentation will focus on descriptions of Italian architecture that were composed by three Englishmen who went on the Grand Tour in the second half of the seventeenth century: Richard Lassels, John Evelyn and Joseph Addison. My interest is to indicate how their strategies of describing a building evolve from an object-centered...

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