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THE ARCHITECTURE
OF
PROVENCE AND THE RIVIERA
Printed by George Waterston & Sons | ||
FOR | ||
DAVID DOUGLAS, EDINBURGH. | ||
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BY
DAVID MACGIBBON
AUTHOR OF “THE CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.”
EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS
1888.
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HAVING been called on, a few years ago, to make frequent journeysbetween this country and the Riviera, the author was greatly impressedwith the extraordinary variety and abundance of the ancientarchitectural monuments of Provence. This country was found to containnot only special styles of Mediæval Art peculiar to itself, but likewisean epitome of all the styles which have prevailed in Southern Europefrom the time of the Romans. It proved to be especially prolific inexamples of Roman Art from the age of Augustu