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Robert Wood

British architect

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  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Origins and development

    …Roman and Greek antiquities was Robert Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra (1753), which was followed in 1757 by the same author’s Ruins of Balbec and by the Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, written in 1764 by the English Neoclassical architect and designer Robert Adam.

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