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An outline of European architecture /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1963, ©1943 (1968 printing)
Edition:7th ed., with rev. bibliography.
Series:Pelican books ; A109.
Subjects:
Architecture > History.
Architecture > Europe > History.
Architecture, Modern > History.
Architecture > Histoire.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Europe
Architecture > History
Architecture > Europe > History
History
Table of Contents:
  • 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.