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Table of Contents:

• 1. Prologue : laying the foundations - Greece and Rome
• 2. THe Christian legacy of Rome
• 3. Beginning again : Carolingian and Romanesque
• 4. The Gothic centuries
• 5. The Renaissance : ancient Rome "reborn"
• 6. Baroque and anti-Baroque
• 7. The return of classicism
• 8. "In what shyle shall we build?"
• 9. After style, modernism
• 10. Epilogue : after modernism, style.

Author/Creator:

Sutton, Ian

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Western architecture: from ancient Greece to the present [by Sutton, I.]

Related Series:

World of art

Subjects:

Architecture — History

Architecture

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375) and index.

Physical Description:

384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Call Numbers:

NA200 .S88 1999

ISBNs:

0500203164

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

98060190

OCLC Numbers:

41226511