nfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRftRY 31111002488839 •Jl'. WORLD |THE OF GRE ARCHITECTURE By R. FURNEAUX JORDAN WWIITTHH 112 ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR I 100784 The World of Grsat Architecture f he C J to the Nineteentt -l* ! urneaux ]ordan This book has twoaims. Thefirstistogive afull picture of thedevelopmentofEuro- peanarchitectureduringthelast2,500years, using as illustrations overa hundredofthe mostbeautifulandmostimportantbuildings ofevery European country. The secondis to stressaninherentelementofarchitecture whichhas hithertobeenneglected byeven the mostvaluable illustratedworks on the — subject color. All one has seen in the pastweregradationsoflightandshadewhich cannot recapture a building as a whole. Architectural works, however, depend lar- gely,evenprincipally,oncolor.Thenatural colorofthe stone or brick, the same color whentransformedbyever-changingeffects of light, the colorof muralpaintings, mo- saics, stained-glass windows, the color of — the surrounding landscape and sky all thesearethebloodwhichflowsthroughthe coldfleshofbuilding-structure andwarms itinto life. Consequently all thepictures in — this book fromSanVitaleinRavennato Hagia Sophia, fromtheCourtoftheLions — intheAlhambrato Hampton Court are in color.Theyhavebeenchosenwith great careand integrated with the text so that throughthemthereadercantrace notonly theentirehistoryofEuropeanarchitecture butalso theexciting history ofhuman de- velopmentv'- '-hthey reflect. 112full-page color plates TO CErJTRAL RETlJr<r I8f?1 aVICCENTEfl OKNTFtELO '<ii&'^ SSTRAt ,9fp-5s DEC 2 '7^ -'''*' S 4 1976 APRi3 7f { NCV 2 4 >97| gTAN 3 1977, ^JAN 2 5 197^ fM MAY 1 1 iPCT 2 9 tsni DEC 2 9 IflTTi MARX 3J91S md l4Ui 1 'NOV 1 4 1979 JIlN 2 4 1980 NOV "- 4 1982^S NOV 4 1982^^ OtC 2 9 720.94 Jordan, R. Furneaiox TVie world o^ <»Ten+". architecture Marin County Free Library Civic Center Administration Building S-!n Raf-'el, C;i! -'ornia THE WORLD OF GREAT ARCHITECTURE From the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century GENERAL EDITOR: BODO CICHY \ THE WORLD OF GREAT ARCHITECTURE From the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century FURNEAUX JORDAN R. 112 full page color plates A STUDIO BOOK THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK • Notes on theplates by Dr Bodo Cichytranslated a?id adapted by C. Ligota © 1961 THAMES AND HUDSON, LONDON THIS EDITION OF BAUKUNST IN EUROPA IS PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH VERLAGSHAUS ROBERT KOHLHAMMER A.G. STUTTGART PUBLISHED IN ig6l BY THE VIKING PRESS, INC. 625 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 22, N.Y. LIBRARY OF CONGRESSCATALOG CARD NUMBER: 61-8828 COLOR PLATES PRINTED IN GERMANY BY CARL RUCK AND HAUFLER & WIEST STUTTGART TEXT PRINTED IN HOLLAND BY H.DE BUSSY J. BOUND BY VAN RIJMENAM N.V. THE HAGUE, HOLLAND 100784 CONTENTS List of Plates page 6 Introduction g Greece sy Rome 8j Early Christian tSi Byzantine ^ 193 Romanesque 2j^ ^ Gothic 28g Renaissance ^55 ' Baroque 4^J Stylistic Revivals 4JJ Index 4^3 4711 11 1 Paestum, Columns ofthe Basilica page 13 LIST 2 Agrigentum (Acragas), Temple ofCastor and OF PLATES Pollux 15 3 Segesta(Egesta), Unfinished Temple 21 4 Delphi, Athenian Treasury 23 5 Athens, Parthenon (view from north-west) 29 6 Athens, Temple ofAthena Nike 3 7 Athens, Erechtheum, Porch ofthe Maidens 37 8 Athens, Temple ofOlympian Zeus 39 9 Rome, Temple ofAntoninus and Faustina 45 10 Rome, Circular Temple by the Tiber 47 1 Rome, Pantheon 53 12 Rome, Colosseum 55 13 Rome, Basilica ofMaxentius 61 1 Rome, Arch ofSeptimius Severus 63 15 Rome, Castel Sant' Angelo (Mausoleum of Hadrian) 69 16 Segovia, Aqueduct 71 1 Nimes, Pont du Card 77 18 Trier, Porta Nigra 79 ig Rome, Santa Sabina 85 20 Ravenna, San Apollinare in Classe 87 2 Ravenna, Mausoleum ofGalla Placidia 93 22 Constantinople, SS. Sergius and Bacchus 95 23 Ravenna, San Vitale 101 24 Constantinople, Hagia Sophia 103 25 Gracanica, monastery church 109 26 Vladimir, Cathedral ofDemetrius 11 27 Moscow, Cathedral ofSt Basil 117 28 Toledo, Santa Maria La Blanca 119 29 Alhambra, Court ofthe Lions 125 30 Istanbul, Mosque ofSultan Sulaiman I 127 31 Istanbul, Mosque ofSultan Ahmet I 133 32 Ravenna, Tomb ofTheodoric 135 33 Borgund, Borgund Church 141 34 Aix-la-Chapelle, Charlemagne's Palace Chapel 143 35 Lorsch, Royal Hall 149 36 Oberzell, Reichenau, St Georg 151 37 Hildesheim, St Michael 157