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Julian-David Le Roy’s The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758; 2d ed., 1770) forms part of a trilogy of books ...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist ...
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