A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN ALL COUNTRIES, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. (Volume II)

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Author

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886

Title

A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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Produced by Sonya Schermann, Albert László and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

NA: Fine Arts: Architecture

Subject

Architecture -- History

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55872

Release Date

November 1, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN ALL COUNTRIES, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
2. 2.CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — PART II.—CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Continued. — BOOK II. ITALY.— Continued. — CHAPTER VII. CONTENTS. — Circular Buildings. — Towers. — Porches. — Civic Buildings. — Venice.
4. 4.CHAPTER VIII. SICILY.
5. 5.CHAPTER IX. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN PALESTINE. — Holy Sepulchre.
6. 6.BOOK III. FRANCE.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — Pointed Arches. — Provence. — Circular Churches. — Towers. — Cloisters.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. AQUITANIA. — Chevet Churches.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. ANJOU.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. AUVERGNE.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. BURGUNDY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. FRANKISH PROVINCE. — INTRODUCTORY. — Latin Style. [30]
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. NORMANDY. — Intersecting Vaulting.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. FRANKISH ARCHITECTURE. — Freemasonry.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. FRENCH GOTHIC CATHEDRALS. — Collegiate Churches.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — Pillars. — Windows. — Circular Windows. — Bays. — Vaults. — Buttresses. — Pinnacles. — Spires. — Construction. — Furniture of Churches. — Domestic Architecture.
17. 17.BOOK IV. BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. — CHAPTER I.
18. 18.CHAPTER II.
19. 19.CHAPTER III. HOLLAND.
20. 20.BOOK V. GERMANY. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
21. 21.CHAPTER II. BASILICAS. — St. Gall. — Double Churches.
22. 22.CHAPTER III. CIRCULAR CHURCHES.
23. 23.CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.
24. 24.CHAPTER V. POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY.
25. 25.CHAPTER VI. — Circular Churches. — Church Furniture. — Civil Architecture.
26. 26.CHAPTER VII. NORTHERN GERMANY. ( Baltic Provinces. ) BRICK ARCHITECTURE. — Civil Buildings.
27. 27.BOOK VI. — CHAPTER I. SCANDINAVIA. — Sweden. — Norway. — Denmark. — Gothland. — Round Churches. — Wooden Churches.
28. 28.BOOK VII. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. ENGLAND.
29. 29.CHAPTER II. SAXON ARCHITECTURE.
30. 30.CHAPTER III. ENGLISH MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE. — Plans of English Cathedral Churches. — Vaults. — Pier Arches. — Window Tracery. — External Proportions. — Diversity of Style. — Situation. — Chapter-Houses. — Chapels. [111] — Parish Churches. — Details. — Tombs. — Civil and Domestic Architecture.
31. 31.CHAPTER IV. ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND.
32. 32.CHAPTER V. IRELAND. — Round Towers and Oratories.
33. 33.BOOK VIII. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — SPAIN. INTRODUCTION.
34. 34.CHAPTER II. CONTENTS. — Early Spanish Romanesque. — Early Spanish Gothic. — Middle Pointed Spanish Style. — Late Spanish Gothic. — Moresco Style.
35. 35.CHAPTER III. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. — Monastic Buildings. — Municipal Buildings. — Castles.
36. 36.CHAPTER IV. PORTUGAL.
37. 37.PART III. SARACENIC AND ANCIENT AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. — BOOK I. — CHAPTER I. SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES; OR, BYZANTINE SARACENIC. — INTRODUCTION.
38. 38.CHAPTER II. SYRIA AND EGYPT. — Mosque at Damascus. — Egypt. — Mecca. — Barbary.
39. 39.CHAPTER III. SPAIN. — Cordoba. — The Giralda at Seville. — The Alcazar at Seville. — The Alhambra.
40. 40.CHAPTER IV. TURKEY. — Suleimanie. — Civil and Domestic Architecture.
41. 41.CHAPTER V. PERSIA. — Mosque at Tabreez. — Tomb at Sultanieh. ( A.D. 1303-1316.) — Palaces. — Turkestan.
42. 42.BOOK II. ANCIENT AMERICA. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
43. 43.CHAPTER II. CENTRAL AMERICA. — Yucatan.
44. 44.CHAPTER III. PERU.
45. 45.INDEX TO VOLS. I. AND II.
46. 46.Footnotes

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