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    Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known...
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  • Buildings of England series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its forty-six original volumes published between 1951 and 1974...
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  • of Naum Gabo David Pevsner, American actor, singer, dancer and writer Keren Pevzner (born 1961), Israeli writer Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), German-born...
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  • ISBN 9780140085891, p. 132 Peter Draper, Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, 2004, p. 73. Draper, Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, p. 75. "Art and Architecture » Pelican History...
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  • personalised critiques of London and Paris, and collaborated with Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who considered his reports to be too subjective, but acknowledged...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth: Penguin (1967) The Roman Occupation, Introduction, Worcestershire, The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner, Harmondsworth:...
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    "most important country house commission." The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed the opinion that the west wing is the "outstanding domestic...
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  • Hilaire Belloc, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Paul Nash, Nikolaus Pevsner, P. Morton Shand, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09595-3 page 303, Buildings of England: London 6 Westminster, Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner, 2003...
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    OCLC 185487752. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1951). High Victorian Design: A Study of the Exhibits of 1851. London: Architectural Press. OCLC 875412662. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1969)...
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  • Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. Pevsner served...
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    Butterfield in 1860 and 1873–1874. The churchyard contains the grave of Nikolaus Pevsner and his wife Lola. St Peter's is a Grade I listed building and remains...
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    considered one of the wonders of the industrial age, and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as being 'a triumph of the new metallurgy and engineering ingenuity...
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    screening room built in 1931 behind the foyer. Architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described this conglomeration as ' ... a great curiosity, a cinema...
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    disputed. The Grade I listed building, described by Chris Pickford and Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important and impressive High Victorian house in the county"...
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    Pedway Peristyle Portico Skyway Veranda John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, p. 200, 3rd edn, 1980, Penguin...
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    in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron. Pevsner described it as having...
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    England, designed by William Burges for the Heathcoat-Amory family. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "an eloquent expression of High Victorian ideals in...
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    Church Street retains the distinct London village character that led Nikolaus Pevsner to write in 1953 that he found it hard to see the district as being...
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  • "Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann". Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. Birkbeck, University of London. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017. Nikolaus Daniel...
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    crosses of Bewcastle and Ruthwell have been described by the scholar Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest achievement of their date in the whole of Europe"...
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    prototypes' for his domes at the United States Capitol. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'very perfect indeed', the building served as a prep school from...
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  • architecture. Cherry began work on the Buildings of England series as Nikolaus Pevsner's research assistant in 1968, and from 1971 to 2002 was the series editor...
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  • Attenborough was an accomplished photographer. "The Leaves of Southwell" by Nikolaus Pevsner was published in 1945 with photographs by Attenborough of the carvings...
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    window than wall." Sir Nikolaus Pevsner writes, "The little rhyme is: 'Hardwick Hall, more window than wall.' Nikolaus Pevsner, A History of Building...
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    furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation...
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    pediment bearing an image of Minerva. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner referred to this gateway as "the craziest Elizabethan frontispiece...
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    Nikolaus Pevsner, 1991, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-071048-5 page 161, Buildings of England: Berkshire, Geoffrey Tyack, Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner,...
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  • at South Tyneside College. He was strongly influenced by reading Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series of architectural guides. In the late 1980s...
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    architectural genius at Ely Cathedral" according to architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. A tower over the crossing may be called a lantern tower if it has...
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