Article: Eighteenth-Century Moldings, Where Did They Come From?

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The architectural forms developed by the Greeks and enhanced by the Romans have left their mark on buildings throughout Europe and the Western World. Reborn after the "Dark Ages" in fifteenth-century Italy and disseminated through the pages of architectural treatises by architects like Alberti, Vignola, and Palladio, classical architecture with its intricate details was here to stay. During the seventeenth century, many European works on classical architecture were translated into English, most notably the Four Books of Andrea Palladio} Palladio is credited with codifying the elements of Roman architecture and making them available to less wealthy clients.2 Most of us are ...

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