| Description |
xxix, 483 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography at end of each chapter. |
| Contents |
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Assyria -- Persia -- Greece -- Etruria -- Rome -- THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES -- The new religion -- Byzantium and the east -- European beginnings -- The structural development -- Norman architecture -- Development of gothic organism -- Gothic character -- The building of the churches -- The last of French gothic -- Italy, Flanders and Spain -- Norman and gothic in England -- THE RENAISSANCE -- The night, the dawn, and the promise of the day -- The city and the artist -- Some Italian artists -- Conditions and contrasts. Michelangelo -- The renaissance enters France -- Spanish contact with the arts of Italy -- France assimilates and develops renaissance art -- The renaissance in England and her American colonies -- MODERN ARCHITECTURE -- Legacy of the past -- Close of the eighteenth century -- Influence of contemporary theories -- Physiognomy of modern architecture -- Conditions of production -- 1. Natural conditions -- 2. Human conditions -- 3. Technical conditions -- The programs of modern architecture -- Architectural setting -- 1. The decorative forms of the whole and the detail -- 2. Decorative detail -- Local schools -- 1. United States -- Administrative Buildings -- Buildings of public utility -- 2. France -- 3. England -- 4. Germany and Austria-Hungary -- 5. Other countries -- SCULPTURE -- Beginnigns and processes -- Classic Sculpture -- Sculpture of the Renaissance -- Modern French sculpture -- PAINTING -- Romanesque -- Gothic -- Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Northern painting, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Germany -- Renaissance -- Counter reformation -- Europe outside of Italy in the seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- LANDSCAPE DESIGN -- Man and the landscape -- 1. Man's influence over landscape -- 2. Appreciation of landscape beauty -- Landscape design as a fine art -- 1. Qualities peculiar to landscape compositions -- 2. Importance of utilizing qualities making for unity -- 3. Humanized mode in landscape design -- 4. Naturalistic mode in landscape design -- 5. Historic styles in landscape design -- CITY PLANNING -- Circulation -- Transportation -- Zoning -- Parks -- Public buildings -- THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS -- The minor fine arts -- A detailed survey -- 1. Ceramic art -- 2. Glass -- 3. Leaded glass windows -- 4. Textiles -- 5. Lace -- 6. Embroidery -- 7. Jewelry -- 8. Metal work -- 9 Furniture -- 10. The book -- 11. Illustration -- MUSIC -- The significance of art. |
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Art.
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Art. |
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Architecture.
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Architecture. |
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