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Description

1. 496 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

1. This seventh revised ed. of Nikolaus Pevsner's classic history is presented in an entirely new and attractive style. The format has been enlarged and the nearly 300 illustrations appear next to the passage to which they refer. The final chapter of the Penguin Jubilee ed. has been incorporated, carrying the story from 1914 to the present day, and there are substantial additions on the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in France as well as many minor revisions. The book tells the story of architecture by concentrating on outstanding buildings, and reads exceedingly well in its concentration and its conbination of warmth and scholarship. -- from Back Cover.

Series statement

1. Pelican books ; A109

Subject

1. Architecture -- History
2. Architecture -- Europe -- History
3. Architecture, Modern

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Twilight and the dawn: from the fourth to the tenth century -- The Romanesque style: c.1000-c.1200 -- The early and classic Gothic style: c.1150-c.1250 -- The late Gothic style: c.1250-1500 -- Renaissance and Mannerism: c.1420-1600 -- The Baroque in the Roman Catholic countries: c.1600-1760 -- Britain and France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- The Romantic Movement, historicism, and the beginning of the modern movement: 1760-1914 -- From the end of the first World War to the present day -- American postscript.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. Reprint of the 7th ed., 1963.
2. Includes index and illustrated glossary.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 457-470.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain