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Architecture of the eighteenth century / John Summerson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerson, John, 1904-1992.
- Series:
- World of art
- World of art.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Modern--17th century--Europe.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture, Modern--18th century--Europe.
- Neoclassicism (Architecture).
- Architecture, Baroque.
- Europe.
- Architecture, Baroque--Europe.
- Neoclassicism (Architecture)--Europe.
- Architecture--Europe.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1986.
- Summary:
- The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equalled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg or the dazzlingly theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque towards Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns--Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theatres, museums, hospitals and banks.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 170-171.
- ISBN:
- 0500202028
- OCLC:
- 13219040
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