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Christopher Tadgell
This book traces the evolution of the projects for completing the square court - Cour Carree - of the Louvre in the 1660s and the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabriel's project…
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This book traces the evolution of the projects for completing the square court - Cour Carree - of the Louvre in the 1660s and the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s project…
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For students of architecture and art history, for travellers, and for readers who want to understand the genesis of the buildings they see around them, each volume provides a complete…
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The seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a comprehensive survey of European architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England; to the triumph…
Lavishly illustrated, this book is a comprehensive reference to the history of architecture and is the first in a series of five titles describing the architectural traditions of the world.
This book covers the whole range in unprecedented depth, placing the development of the tradition in the context - religious, political, economic and technological - of the times.
Unprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th-…
With more than 1500 images, including many plans, The West is an unprecedented single-volume survey of the period, covering the whole of Europe from Ireland to Russia, and placing architectural…
Unprecedented in scope - like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism - this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration…
The East, the second in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world, is a survey of unparalleled range and depth.
The fourth book in the Architecture in Context series, Tadgell covers all the major architectural traditions of European Architecture in the Middle Ages, from the destruction of Rome to the…
The architecture of Islam encompasses a high proportion of the world’s most beautiful buildings. This book covers the whole range in unprecedented breadth and depth.
This comprehensive revision acknowledges the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. It covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial…
