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The Classical Language of Architecture John Summerson

The Classical Language of Architecture By John Summerson

The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson


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The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson

Sir John Summerson's account of classical architecture has every right to be called a classic itself. With the help of diagrams, glossary and a wealth of photographs, the reader is taken easily from the great originals of Greece and Rome through the recapitulations and innovations of the Renaissance, the rhetoric of the Baroque and grave statements of Neo-classicism to the 'stripped Neo-classicism' of the moderns - every age using the classical language to make its own statement. For this edition the volume was completely redesigned and the number of illustrations more than doubled.

About John Summerson

Sir John Newenham Summerson, CBE was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian Era. He was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface * The Essentials of Classicism * 2. The Grammar of Antiquity * 3. Sixteenth-Century Linguistics * 4. The Rhetoric of the Baroque * 5. The Light of Reason - and of Archaeology * 6. Classical into Modern * Glossary, Notes on the Literature of Classical Architecture

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GOR001403284
9780500201770
0500201773
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
1980-06-23
144
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