<P> The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th - century phase in the history of Classical architecture . </P> <P> In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th - century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesised with picturesque aesthetics . The style of architecture that was thus created, though also characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was essentially of its own time . "The backward look transforms its object," Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles; "every spectator at every period--at every moment, indeed--inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature ." </P> <P> The Italianate style was first developed in Britain about 1802 by John Nash, 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 . The Italianate style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s . Barry's Italianate style (occasionally termed "Barryesque") drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance, though sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate villas . </P> <P> 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 to 1890 it achieved huge popularity in the United States, where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis . </P>

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