The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (World of Art)
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0500202028
ISBN 13
9780500202029
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Publication Year
1986
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176
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The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equaled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of the Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the dazzling theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque toward Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns--Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theaters, museums, hospitals and banks. Summerson provides a succinct and elegant summary of the entire period, bringing into focus not only the stunning beauty of these buildings, but also the background of ideas from which they sprang. - from Amzon
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Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1792 | NA627.S74 | 1 | Yes |