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The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.

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Early grottoes; Grottoes in the eighteenth century: The 'nymphaeum', The shell grotto and house, the simulated limestone cave; Grottoes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; design, construction and decoration; further reading; gazetteer of grottoes to visit.

Shell Houses and Grottoes

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780747805229, 978-0747805229
      ISBN10: 0747805229

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.

      Table of Contents
      Early grottoes; Grottoes in the eighteenth century: The 'nymphaeum', The shell grotto and house, the simulated limestone cave; Grottoes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; design, construction and decoration; further reading; gazetteer of grottoes to visit.

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