Category:Italianate architecture

Main article Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was first developed by John Nash in Britain in 1805 as a progression of the picturesque movement, with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire. This small country house is generally accepted to be the first Italianate villa in England, from which is derived the Italianate architecture of the late Regency and early Victorian eras ^[3].

The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s ^[4]. Barry's Italianate style drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance, this concept, sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate villas, produced what came to be accepted as the Italianate style. The style was not confined to England and was employed in varying forms, long after its decline in popularity in Britain, throughout northern Europe and the British Empire. From the late 1840s it achieved huge popularity in the United States, where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis