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Book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture written by William Gunn and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Inquiry Into The Origin And Influence Of Gothic Architecture

Download or read book An Inquiry Into The Origin And Influence Of Gothic Architecture written by William Gunn and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic study of Gothic architecture, William Gunn explores the origins and development of one of the most enduring styles in European architectural history. Drawing on a wide range of examples and sources, Gunn provides a fascinating overview of the Gothic aesthetic and its enduring influence on modern architecture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture written by William Gunn and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An history of the origin and establishment of Gothic architecture  comprehending also an account of C  sar C  sarianus  an investigation of the principles and proportions of that style of architecture called the Gothic  and an inquiry into the mode of painting upon and staining glass  as practised in the ecclesiastical structures of the middle ages

Download or read book An history of the origin and establishment of Gothic architecture comprehending also an account of C sar C sarianus an investigation of the principles and proportions of that style of architecture called the Gothic and an inquiry into the mode of painting upon and staining glass as practised in the ecclesiastical structures of the middle ages written by John Sidney Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Architecture

Download or read book Medieval Architecture written by Arthur Kingsley Porter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities and the Grand Tour

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  • Author : Rosemary Sweet
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-04
  • ISBN : 1139576895
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Cities and the Grand Tour written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic, which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture and the transition to modernity.

Book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages  etc

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages etc written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages  Including Words Used by Ancient and Modern Authors in Treating of Architectural and Other Antiquities  Also  Biographical Notices of Ancient Architects

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages Including Words Used by Ancient and Modern Authors in Treating of Architectural and Other Antiquities Also Biographical Notices of Ancient Architects written by John Britton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages  including     biographical notices of ancient architects     Illustrated by numerous engravings by J  Le Keux

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages including biographical notices of ancient architects Illustrated by numerous engravings by J Le Keux written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gothic Antiquity

Download or read book Gothic Antiquity written by Dale Townshend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past—a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.

Book Newman University Church  Dublin

Download or read book Newman University Church Dublin written by Niamh Bhalla and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, John Henry Newman, one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, was officially installed as the rector of the first Catholic university in Ireland. University Church (constructed in 1855–6) was Newman’s first objective when he agreed to the rectorship and it can be considered as a tangible manifestation of the idea behind the unprecedented Catholic university in Dublin – the posing of an erudite Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony through a style-based analogy to the early Church. Despite physically embodying what Newman wished to achieve in and through his new university, this ‘early Christian' style church, which drew upon Roman and Byzantine basilicas, has received little attention. This book charts for the first time the significant place that the building occupies within the history of Victorian revivalist architecture. Niamh Bhalla explores the meaningful connection between the church’s context and the ambiguity of its ‘early Christian’ style. In the intersection of these two things, a significant monument was created. The study of University Church therefore provides an effective lens to understand more comprehensively the architectural revivalism that dominated the nineteenth century, particularly the first stirrings of basilican and Byzantine revivalist architectures in the British Isles. Praise for Newman University Church, Dublin 'Newman University Church, Dublin is an important contribution to the burgeoning study of historistic architecture of the nineteenth century. In studying the larger contexts of the church, Niamh Bhalla illumines the aspirations of Cardinal Newman for the university that he directed and Catholicism in Ireland and the United Kingdom.' Robert S. Nelson, Yale University 'A riveting analysis of the University Church and its intellectual background. Niamh Bhalla steers us effortlessly through the many strands of architectural and religious thought that lie behind Newman’s church, while revealing its seminal place in the history of the Byzantine revival.' Roger Stalley, Trinity College Dublin

Book Catalogue of Books      Natural history  books of prints  architecture  numismata  heraldry  physics  metaphysics  language  bibliography  Oriental and Northern literature  games and sports

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Natural history books of prints architecture numismata heraldry physics metaphysics language bibliography Oriental and Northern literature games and sports written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Specimens of Gothic Architecture

Download or read book Specimens of Gothic Architecture written by Augustus Pugin and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

Download or read book The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.

Book History of Construction Cultures Volume 1

Download or read book History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 written by João Mascarenhas-Mateus and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The conference has been organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL), NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Portuguese Society for Construction History Studies and the University of the Azores. The contributions cover the wide interdisciplinary spectrum of Construction History and consist on the most recent advances in theory and practical case studies analysis, following themes such as: - epistemological issues; - building actors; - building materials; - building machines, tools and equipment; - construction processes; - building services and techniques ; -structural theory and analysis ; - political, social and economic aspects; - knowledge transfer and cultural translation of construction cultures. Furthermore, papers presented at thematic sessions aim at covering important problematics, historical periods and different regions of the globe, opening new directions for Construction History research. We are what we build and how we build; thus, the study of Construction History is now more than ever at the centre of current debates as to the shape of a sustainable future for humankind. Therefore, History of Construction Cultures is a critical and indispensable work to expand our understanding of the ways in which everyday building activities have been perceived and experienced in different cultures, from ancient times to our century and all over the world.