Made for both private and public viewing, at scales both grand and intimate, crèches are customizable by design: collectors could accumulate and rearrange figures and scenic elements to suit the ...
Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design ... a volume of 18th century ...
This cathedral – often described as a mash-up of Roman, Gothic and neoclassic stylistic elements – has survived ... filled to the brim with lavish 18th-century decorations.