260 The Etruscan dressing-room, designed by Robert Adam, 1775

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Description: The Etruscan dressing-room, Osterley Park

TitleThe Etruscan dressing-room, Osterley Park

Creator nameAdam, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1775

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationNational Trust, Osterley Park, London

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsInterior walls--DecorationArchitecture--England--LondonNeoclassicism (Architecture)

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10. Osterley Park

Eileen Harris

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

~Osterley, Middlesex, was a botched Elizabethan pile when Adam came there in 1761; when he left in 1778 it was ‘a palace of palaces . . . so improved and enriched that all the Percies and...

Author

Eileen Harris

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.156-179

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00304.11

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Chapter subject tags:Adam, Robert, 1728-1792Osterley Park and House (Hounslow, London, England)Decoration and ornament--NeoclassicismFurniture designEtruscan influences

III. Aspects of Neoclassic Architecture

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~FROM the mid eighteenth century on, Historicism pervaded architecture as thoroughly as it had the other arts. In fact, this new viewpoint has usually been pointed out more clearly in histories of architectureFor English-speaking readers the term has become familiar...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.107-145

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.3

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Architecture)Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Architecture, Classical, in artHistoricism in architectureAdam, Robert, 1728-1792Architecture, British--18th centuryArchitecture, British--Classical influencesPainting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--18th centuryArchitecture, French--18th centuryIngres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867

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