The classical language of architecture
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The classical language of architecture
（World of art）
Thames and Hudson, c1980
Rev. and enl. ed
- : pbk.
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Bibliography: p. 135-139
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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