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16 mai 2023
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Daniela Roberts, « Creating Space and Collection Display in British Gothic Revival Houses (1740–1860) », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.6tmbi1
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In a house affecting not only obsolete architecture, but pretending to an observance of the costume even in the furniture, the mixture of modern portraits, and French porcelaine, and Greek and Roman sculpture, may seem heterogeneous. In truth, I did not mean to make my house so Gothic as to exclude convenience, and modern refinements in luxury . . . Would our ancestors, before the reformation of architecture, not have deposited in their gloomy castles antique statues and fine pictures, beauti...