Author: John Henry ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture
Author: John Henry ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A B C of Gothic Architecture
Author: John Henry ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Architectural History of the City of Rome. Based on J.H. Parker's "Archaeology of Rome:" for the Use of Students
Author: John Henry ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Battle of the Styles
Author: Bernard PorterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441168729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.
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Author: Christian Remembrancer
Author: An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture. By J. H. Parker
Author: John Henry PARKER (C.B.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Royal Abbey of Reading
Author: Ron BaxterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270845
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
First full-length survey of Reading Abbey, one of the most important ecclesiastical buildings of the Middle Ages. Reading Abbey was built by King Henry I to be a great architectural statement and his own mausoleum, as well as a place of resort and a staging point for royal itineraries for progresses in the west and south-west of England. Fromthe start it was envisaged as a monastic site with a high degree of independence from the church hierarchy; it was granted enormous holdings of land and major religious relics to attract visitors and pilgrims, and no expense wasspared in providing a church comparable in size and splendour with anything else in England. However, in architectural terms, the abbey has, until recently, remained enigmatic, mainly because of the efficiency with which itwas destroyed at the Reformation. Only recently has it become possible to bring together the scattered evidence - antiquarian drawings and historic records along with a new survey of the standing remains - into a coherent picture.This richly illustrated volume provides the first full account of the abbey, from foundation to dissolution, and offers a new virtual reconstruction of the church and its cloister; it also shows how the abbey formed the backdropto many key historical events. Ron Baxter is the Research Director of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.
The Reader's Digest of Books
Author: Helen Rex KellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description