The world of great architecture: from the Greeks to the nineteenth century

468 Pages·1961·48.16 MB·English

by  R. Furneaux Jordan

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ofevery European country. The secondis
to stressaninherentelementofarchitecture
whichhas hithertobeenneglected byeven
the mostvaluable illustratedworks on the
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subject color. All one has seen in the
pastweregradationsoflightandshadewhich
cannot recapture a building as a whole.
Architectural works, however, depend lar-
gely,evenprincipally,oncolor.Thenatural
colorofthe stone or brick, the same color
whentransformedbyever-changingeffects
of light, the colorof muralpaintings, mo-
saics, stained-glass windows, the color of
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the surrounding landscape and sky all
thesearethebloodwhichflowsthroughthe
coldfleshofbuilding-structure andwarms
itinto life. Consequently all thepictures in
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in color.Theyhavebeenchosenwith great
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throughthemthereadercantrace notonly
theentirehistoryofEuropeanarchitecture
butalso theexciting history ofhuman de-
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THE WORLD OF GREAT ARCHITECTURE
From the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century
GENERAL EDITOR: BODO CICHY
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THE WORLD
OF GREAT
ARCHITECTURE
From the Greeks to the
Nineteenth Century
FURNEAUX JORDAN
R.
112 full page color plates
A STUDIO BOOK
THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK
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Notes on theplates by Dr Bodo Cichytranslated a?id adapted by C. Ligota
© 1961 THAMES AND HUDSON, LONDON
THIS EDITION OF BAUKUNST IN EUROPA IS
PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH
VERLAGSHAUS ROBERT KOHLHAMMER A.G. STUTTGART
PUBLISHED IN ig6l BY THE VIKING PRESS, INC.
625 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 22, N.Y.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESSCATALOG CARD NUMBER: 61-8828
COLOR PLATES PRINTED IN GERMANY BY CARL RUCK AND HAUFLER & WIEST STUTTGART
TEXT PRINTED IN HOLLAND BY H.DE BUSSY
J.
BOUND BY VAN RIJMENAM N.V. THE HAGUE, HOLLAND
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CONTENTS
List of Plates page 6
Introduction g
Greece sy
Rome 8j
Early Christian tSi
Byzantine ^ 193
Romanesque 2j^
^ Gothic 28g
Renaissance ^55
' Baroque 4^J
Stylistic Revivals 4JJ
Index 4^3
4711 11
1 Paestum, Columns ofthe Basilica page 13 LIST
2 Agrigentum (Acragas), Temple ofCastor and
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Pollux 15
3 Segesta(Egesta), Unfinished Temple 21
4 Delphi, Athenian Treasury 23
5 Athens, Parthenon (view from north-west) 29
6 Athens, Temple ofAthena Nike 3
7 Athens, Erechtheum, Porch ofthe Maidens 37
8 Athens, Temple ofOlympian Zeus 39
9 Rome, Temple ofAntoninus and Faustina 45
10 Rome, Circular Temple by the Tiber 47
1 Rome, Pantheon 53
12 Rome, Colosseum 55
13 Rome, Basilica ofMaxentius 61
1 Rome, Arch ofSeptimius Severus 63
15 Rome, Castel Sant' Angelo (Mausoleum of
Hadrian) 69
16 Segovia, Aqueduct 71
1 Nimes, Pont du Card 77
18 Trier, Porta Nigra 79
ig Rome, Santa Sabina 85
20 Ravenna, San Apollinare in Classe 87
2 Ravenna, Mausoleum ofGalla Placidia 93
22 Constantinople, SS. Sergius and Bacchus 95
23 Ravenna, San Vitale 101
24 Constantinople, Hagia Sophia 103
25 Gracanica, monastery church 109
26 Vladimir, Cathedral ofDemetrius 11
27 Moscow, Cathedral ofSt Basil 117
28 Toledo, Santa Maria La Blanca 119
29 Alhambra, Court ofthe Lions 125
30 Istanbul, Mosque ofSultan Sulaiman I 127
31 Istanbul, Mosque ofSultan Ahmet I 133
32 Ravenna, Tomb ofTheodoric 135
33 Borgund, Borgund Church 141
34 Aix-la-Chapelle, Charlemagne's Palace Chapel 143
35 Lorsch, Royal Hall 149
36 Oberzell, Reichenau, St Georg 151
37 Hildesheim, St Michael 157