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Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture — The Public Domain Review
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Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture — The Public Domain Review

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In 1840, British architect George Wightwick published a world history of architecture in the Romantic mode, inviting readers to enter a vast garden where Buddhist iconography rubs shoulders with Greek temples and Egyptian pyramids gaze upon Gothic cathedrals. His intended audience? Idle women. Matthew Mullane revisits this visionary but ultimately unpopular text, revealing the legacy of attempts to gatekeep the realms of imagination and fantasy pertaining to the built environment.

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