
The Classical Language of Architecture
John Summerson(Author)
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 23. June 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-500-20177-0 (ISBN)
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Description
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 edition the volume was completely redesigned and the number of illustrations more than doubled.
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Edition
Revised and enlarged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Illustrations
139 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 146 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-20177-0 (9780500201770)
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Sir John Newenham Summerson, CBE was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian Era. He was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.
Content
Preface * The Essentials of Classicism * 2. The Grammar of Antiquity * 3. Sixteenth-Century Linguistics * 4. The Rhetoric of the Baroque * 5. The Light of Reason - and of Archaeology * 6. Classical into Modern * Glossary, Notes on the Literature of Classical Architecture