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Classical architecture : an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms / James Stevens Curl.
Author
Curl, James Stevens, 1937-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
[2nd ed.].
Published/Created
New York : Norton, 2003
Description
231 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Architecture Library - Reference
NA260 .C87 2003
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Architecture, Classical
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Classicism in architecture
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Architecture, Ancient
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Summary note
"This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of Classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of Classical architecture in itself. Professor James Stevens Curl discusses in clear, straightforward language the origins of Classical architecture in Greek and Roman Antiquity and outlines its continuous development, through its various manifestations during the Renaissance, its transformations in Baroque and Rococo phases, its re-emergence in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Neoclassicism, and its survival into the modern era. The text and illustrations celebrate the richness of the Classical architectural vocabulary, grammar, and language, and demonstrate the enormous range of themes and motifs found in the subject."--Jacket.
Notes
First published in 1992; 2nd ed. originally published in London by B.T. Batsford.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index.
Contents
What is classical architecture? A few definitions
The orders of architecture and their application
The Graeco-Roman roots of classical architecture
The Renaissance period
Baroque, Rococo, and Palladianism.
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ISBN
0393731197 ((pbk.))
9780393731194 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2002041073
OCLC
50960810
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