Smith Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-7364-0568-4
Verlag: anboco
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 500 Seiten

The history, the features, and the most famous examples of European architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic, or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression which overtook the Renaissance style at the close of the eighteenth, form the subject of this little volume. I have endeavoured to adopt as free and simple a mode of treatment as is compatible with the accurate statement of at least the outlines of so very technical a subject. Though it is to be hoped that many professional students of architecture will find this hand-book serviceable to them in their elementary studies, it has been my principal endeavour to adapt it to the requirements of those who are preparing for the professional pursuit of the sister arts, and of that large and happily increasing number of students who pursue the fine arts as a necessary part of a complete liberal education, and who know that a [viii] solid and comprehensive acquaintance with art, especially if joined to some skill in the use of the pencil, the brush, the modelling tool, or the etching needle, will open sources of pleasure and interest of the most refined description. The broad facts of all art history; the principles which underlie each of the fine arts; and the most precious or most noteworthy examples of each, ought to be familiar to every art student, whatever special branch he may follow. Beyond these limits I have not attempted to carry this account of Gothic and Renaissance architecture; within them I have endeavoured to make the work as complete as the space at my disposal permitted. Some portions of the text formed part of two courses of lectures delivered before the students of the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, and are introduced here by the kind permission of Sir John Stokes. Many of the descriptive and critical remarks are transcripts of notes made by myself, almost under the shadow of the buildings to which they refer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, T. Roger

Leseproben

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

Certosa, The, near Pavia. From the Cloisters

Frontispiece

Saint George. Panel from the Tomb of Cardinal Amboise in Rouen Cathedral

Title Page

Glossary. Forty Engravings of Details

xv to xxxix

1.

West Entrance, Lichfield Cathedral. (1275.)

5

2.

Ground Plan of Peterborough Cathedral. (1118 to 1193.)

6

3.

Transverse Section of the Nave of Salisbury Cathedral

7

4.

Choir of Worcester Cathedral. (Begun 1224.)

9

5.

Nave of Wells Cathedral. (1206 to 1242.)

9

6.

Ground Plan of Westminster Abbey

11

7.

House of Jaques Cœur at Bourges. (Begun 1443.)

15

8.

Plan of Warwick Castle. (14th and 15th Centuries.)

16

9.

Palaces on the Grand Canal, Venice. (14th Century.)

18

10.

Well at Regensburg. (15th Century.)

20

11.

Gothic Ornament. From Sens Cathedral (Headpiece)

21

12.

Lincoln Cathedral. (Mostly Early English.)

35

13.

St. Pierre, Caen, Tower and Spire. (Spire, 1302.)

37

14.

House at Chester. (16th Century.)

38

15.

Houses at Lisieux, France. (16th Century.)

41

16.

Lancet Window. (12th Century.)

46

17.

Two-light Window. (13th Century.)

47

18.

Geometrical Tracery. (14th Century.)

48

19.

Triforium Arcade, Westminster Abbey. (1269.)

49

20.

Rose Window from the Transept of Lincoln Cathedral

50

21.

Perpendicular Window

51

22.

Roof of Hall at Eltham Palace. (15th Century.)

53

23.

Henry VII.’s Chapel. (1503-1512.)

57

24.

Spire of St. Mary Magdalene, Warboys, Lincolnshire

59

25.

Decorated Spire. All Saints’ Church, Oakham

60

26.

Early Arch in Receding Planes

62

27.

Arch in Receding Planes Moulded

62

28.

Doorway, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. (15th Cent.)

63

29.

Stained Glass Window from Chartres Cathedral

65

30.

Sculpture from Chapter House, Westminster Abbey

67

31.

Church at Fontevrault. (Begun 1125.)

70

32.

Doorway at Loches, France. (1180.)

72

33.

Notre Dame, Paris, West Front. (1214.)

74

34.

Plan of Amiens Cathedral. (1220-1272.)

76

35.

Amiens Cathedral, West Front. (1220-1272.)

78

36.

Piers and Superstructure, Rheims Cathedral. (1211-1240.)

80

37.

Capital from St. Nicholas, Blois, France. (13th Century.)

84

38.

Beauvais Cathedral, Interior. (1225-1537.)

86

39.

The Town Hall of Middleburgh. (1518.)

89

...

40.

Tower at Ghent. (Begun 1183.)

90