Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

Name: Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance
Author: Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

Architecture -- History; Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, Renaissance; Church architecture

The broad facts of all art history; the principles which underlie each
of the fine arts; and the most precious or most noteworthy examples of
each, ought to be familiar to every art student, whatever special
branch he may follow. Beyond these limits I have not attempted to
carry this account of Gothic and Renaissance architecture; within them
I have endeavoured to make the work as complete as the space at my
disposal permitted.

Some portions of the text formed part of two courses of lectures
delivered before the students of the School of Military Engineering at
Chatham, and are introduced here by the kind permission of Sir John
Stokes. Many of the descriptive and critical remarks are transcripts
of notes made by myself, almost under the shadow of the buildings to
which they refer. It would, however, have been impossible to give a
condensed view of so extended a subject had not every part of it been
treated at much greater length by previous writers. The number and
variety of the books consulted renders it impossible to make any other
acknowledgment here than this general recognition of my indebtedness
to their authors.

                                                    T. R. S.

  [Illustration: {STAINED GLASS FROM CHARTRES CATHEDRAL.}]

CONTENTS.

                                                                  PAGE

    ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL WORDS.               xv to xxxix

    CHAPTER I.

      INTRODUCTION.                                                  1

    CHAPTER II.

      THE BUILDINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.                              6

    CHAPTER III.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.                                          21

    CHAPTER IV.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND.

          Analysis of Buildings. Plans. Walls. Towers and
            Spires. Gables. Piers and Columns                       28

    CHAPTER V.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND (_continued_).

          Analysis (_continued_). Openings. Roofs. Spires.
            Ornaments. Stained Glass. Sculpture                     45

    CHAPTER VI.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN WESTERN EUROPE.

          1. FRANCE. Chronological Sketch. Analysis of
            Buildings. Plans. Walls, Towers and Gables.
            Columns and Piers. Roofs and Vaults. Openings.
            Mouldings and Ornaments. Construction and Design        69

          2. BELGIUM and the NETHERLANDS                            87

          3. SCOTLAND, WALES, and IRELAND                           91

    CHAPTER VII.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE.

          1. GERMANY. Chronological Sketch. Analysis of
            Buildings. Plans. Walls, Towers and Gables.
            Roofs and Vaults. Openings. Ornaments.
            Construction and Design                                 93

          2. NORTHERN EUROPE                                       111

    CHAPTER VIII.

      GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE.

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