| Description |
176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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World of art |
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World of art library.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The ascendancy and fall of the Baroque - The legacy of Roman Baroque - Rococo and Rationalism -- Ch. 2. The architecture of absolutism - Three royal palaces; Vienna, Stockholm and Berlin - The courts of Germany - Varieties of absolutism -- Ch. 3. The demonstrations of faith - Catholicism in central Europe - A twist to classicism: Italy and France - Spain, Portugal and Latin America - The Protestant world -- Ch. 4. A plurality of styles - 'Noble simplicity' - Beyond Neo-classicism - Art, nature and the Gothic - The cult of the cottage - Archaeology, abstraction and the exotic -- Ch. 5. Architecture and society: the enlightenment - Theatres, public and private - Libraries and museums - Hospitals and prisons - The architecture of commerce -- Ch. 6. The urban image - Planning and politics - Formality dissolves - Growing into the future |
| Analysis |
Architecture 1700-1800 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 170-171 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Europe -- 18th century.
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Architecture -- Europe.
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Architecture, Baroque -- Europe.
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Architecture, Baroque.
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Architecture, Modern -- 17th century -- Europe.
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Architecture, Modern -- 17th century -- Europe.
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Architecture, Modern -- 18th century -- Europe.
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Architecture, Modern -- 17th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 18th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 18th century -- Europe.
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Enlightenment.
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Neoclassicism (Architecture)
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Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- Europe.
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| Author |
Cobban, Alfred.
Eighteenth century. Selections
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| LC no. |
85050749 |
| ISBN |
0500202028 (paperback) |
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