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An outline of European architecture / Nikolaus Pevsner.

By: Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2009Description: 256 p. : ill (some col.) ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9781423604938; 1423604938.Subject(s): Architecture -- Europe -- HistoryDDC classification: 720.94
Contents:
Introduction -- Twilight and Dawn From the fourth to the tenth century -- The Romanesque Style c. 1000 - c. 1200 -- The early and classic gothic style c. 1150 - c. 1250 -- The late gothic style c. 1250 - c. 1500 -- Renaissance and Mannerism c. 1420 - c. 1600 -- The Baroque in the Roman Catholic Countries c. 1600 - c. 1760 -- Britain and France From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- The Romantic Movement Historicism, and the beginning of the modern movement 1760 - 1914 -- The modern movement Postscript by Michael Forsyth.
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One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century.

Bibliography: (pages 244-245) and indexes.

Introduction -- Twilight and Dawn From the fourth to the tenth century -- The Romanesque Style c. 1000 - c. 1200 -- The early and classic gothic style c. 1150 - c. 1250 -- The late gothic style c. 1250 - c. 1500 -- Renaissance and Mannerism c. 1420 - c. 1600 -- The Baroque in the Roman Catholic Countries c. 1600 - c. 1760 -- Britain and France From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- The Romantic Movement Historicism, and the beginning of the modern movement 1760 - 1914 -- The modern movement Postscript by Michael Forsyth.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. 6)
  • Foreword (p. 8)
  • Introduction (p. 10)
  • 1 Twilight and Dawn From the fourth to the tenth century (p. 12)
  • 2 The Romanesque Style c. 1000-c. 1200 (p. 30)
  • 3 The Early and Classic Gothic Style c. 1150-c. 1250 (p. 50)
  • 4 The Late Gothic Style c. 1250-c. 1500 (p. 72)
  • 5 Renaissance and Mannerism c. 1420-c. 1600 (p. 96)
  • 6 The Baroque in the Roman Catholic Countries c. 1600-c. 1760 (p. 128)
  • 7 Britain and France From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century (p. 152)
  • 8 The Romantic Movement Historicism, and the Beginning of the Modern Movement 1760-1914 (p. 186)
  • 9 The Modern Movement (p. 216)
  • Postscript by Michael Forsyth (p. 234)
  • Notes (p. 242)
  • Select Bibliography (p. 244)
  • Some Technical Terms Explained (p. 246)
  • Index of People (p. 248)
  • Index of Places (p. 251)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 256)

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THE GREEK TEMPLE is the most perfect example ever achieved of architecture finding its fulfilment in bodily beauty. Its interior mattered infinitely less than its exterior. The colonnade all round conceals where the entrance lies. The faithful did not enter it and spend hours of communication with the Divine in it, as they do in a church. Our Western conception of space would have been just as unintelligible to a man of Pericles's age as our religion. It is the plastic shape of the temple that tells, placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later building. The isolation of the Parthenon or the temples of Paestum, clearly disconnected from the ground on which they stand, the columns with their resilient curves, strong enough to carry without too much visible effort the weight of the architraves, the sculptured friezes and sculptured pediments - there is something consummately human in all this, life in the brightest lights of nature and mind: nothing harrowing, nothing problematic and obscure, nothing blurred. Excerpted from An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

He is a former architecture historian.

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