The Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture: A Date Book of Architectural Art, From the Building of the Ancient Basilica of S. Peter's, ... of the Present Church (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Perry, J. Tavenor

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ISBN 10: 1330341872 ISBN 13: 9781330341872

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture: A Date Book of Architectural Art, From the Building of the Ancient Basilica of S. Peter's, Rome to the Consecration of the Present Church

To give a clear idea of the manner in which architectural art progressed through the epoch contained in the following tables, as various styles proceeded along parallel lines, a short synoptical table has been given, as an introduction, showing the characteristics of the several periods and styles together with their duration and locality. From this table become more apparent than any other mode of description would render possible, the variations in the art proceeding at the same time in different provinces: how for long a style or characteristic abandoned in one country retained its vitality in another; or how, in many cases, a perfect but purely local style died out before the greater wealth or influence of a neighbouring state.

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Excerpt from The Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture: A Date Book of Architectural Art, From the Building of the Ancient Basilica of S. Peter's, Rome to the Consecration of the Present Church

The period which exactly synchronises with the architectural history of S. Peter's at Rome was a period of the greatest activity the world has ever seen in the art of Architecture. It embraces the whole history of the great Gothic schools, from their rise upon the ruins of Imperial Rome to their submergence beneath that revival of ancient classical forms accomplished by the Renaissance. With the founding of the first Basilica of S. Peter by Constantine begins that introduction of new arrangements into the buildings, necessitated by the altered conditions of worship, which gradually caused the abandonment of classic uses, and led on to the development of the new schools of Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Architecture; whilst the consecration by Pope Urban the Eighth of the new Basilica, in 1626, marks the close of that brilliant epoch, after which Architecture ceased to be a living, progressive art, and began only to copy forms of other periods and varying schools as the fashion of the period or as the wealth or taste of a patron might dictate.

The history of the rise and fall of the Gothic schools has been often described, and nowhere so completely as in the pages of Fergusson's 'Handbook of Architecture'; but no writer has yet attempted to present in sequent and chronological order an account of works simultaneously in progress in different countries; hence confusion often arises, through certain styles or phases of styles, being regarded as successive instead of as concurrent.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330341872
• ISBN 13: 9781330341872
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320