tailieunhanh - ARCHITECTURE CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BY PROFESSOR

This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information required by the professional student, may give a general idea of the works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early Christian times. | ARCHITECTURE CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BY PROFESSOR T. ROGER SMITH . AND JOHN SLATER . . THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES circa . 438. ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY ARCHITECTURE CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BY T. ROGER SMITH . Professor of Architecture University Coll. London AND JOHN SLATER . . ATRIUM OF A ROMAN MANSION. LONDON SAMPSON LOW MARSTON SEARLE RIVINGTON CROWN BUILDINGS 188 FLEET STREET 1882. All rights reserved. LONDON. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS LIMITED STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. PREFACE This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture of the Ancient World and of that of Christendom down to the period of the Crusades as without attempting to supply the minute information required by the professional student may give a general idea of the works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early Christian times. Its chief object has been to place information on the subject within the reach of those persons of literary or artistic education who desire to become in some degree acquainted with Architecture. All technicalities which could be dispensed with have been accordingly excluded and when it has been unavoidable that a technical word or phrase should occur an explanation has been added either in the text or in the glossary but as this volume and the companion one on Gothic and Renaissance Architecture are in effect two divisions of the same work it has not been thought necessary to repeat in the glossary given with this part the words explained in that prefixed to the other. In treating so very wide a field it has been felt that the chief prominence should be given to that great sequence of architectural styles which form the links of a chain connecting the architecture of modern Europe with the earliest specimens of the art. Egypt Assyria and Persia combined to furnish the foundation upon which the splendid architecture of the .