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The Classical Language of Architecture

Paperback • 1980 • English

The Classical Language of Architecture

By John Summerson

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About the book

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 editio...Show more

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ISBN

9780500201770

Published year

1980

Language

English

Original title

The Classical Language of Architecture

Format

Paperback

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