Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Verlag: Phaidon Press Ltd., London,, 1968

Beschreibung

Quarto; hardcover; 427pp., with many monochrome plates. Minor wear; preliminaries foxed; text block edges spotted; boards rubbed at spine extremities. Dustwrapper a little sunned; creased at edges; minor fraying; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The Rococo is a mode of decoration which reached its culmination in the middle of the eighteenth century throughout most of Europe. From its beginnings in France about 1700 it spread to southern Germany, where it developed and finally flourished as full-scale Rococo architecture. The appeal of this florid and highly decorative architectural style has grown outside Germany in the last forty years so that what once was the cause of amused curiosity is now enthusiastically admired. The development of south German Rococo, as seen through the lives and work of its leading exponents, forms the theme of this book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10742

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany

Verlag: Phaidon Press Ltd., London,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1968