Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Nikolaus Pevsner
Born: January 30, 1902
Died: August 18, 1983 (aged 81)
Bio: Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture.
Known for:
- An Outline of European Architecture (1942)
- Pioneers of Modern Design (1936)
- Academies of art, past and present (1940)
- Sussex (1965)