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    Architecture Classic and Early Christian
    Architecture Classic and Early Christian
    Architecture Classic and Early Christian
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    Architecture Classic and Early Christian

    By T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith and John Slater

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Architecture Classic and Early Christian - T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

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      Title: Architecture

      Classic and Early Christian

      Author: Thomas Roger Smith

      John Slater

      Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29759]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARCHITECTURE ***

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      ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY

      OF ALL AGES

      ARCHITECTURE

      CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

      BY PROFESSOR T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.

      AND

      JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.

      THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES, circa B.C. 438.

      ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY

      ARCHITECTURE

      CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

      BY T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.

      Professor of Architecture, University Coll. London

      AND

      JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.

      ATRIUM OF A ROMAN MANSION.

      LONDON

      SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON

      CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET

      1882.

      [All rights reserved.]

      LONDON. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

      STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

      PREFACE.

      This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information required by the professional student, may give a general idea of the works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early Christian times. Its chief object has been to place information on the subject within the reach of those persons of literary or artistic education who desire to become in some degree acquainted with Architecture. All technicalities which could be dispensed with have been accordingly excluded; and when it has been unavoidable that a technical word or phrase should occur, an explanation has been added either in the text or in the glossary; but as this volume and the companion one on Gothic and Renaissance Architecture are, in effect, two divisions of the same work, it has not been thought necessary to repeat in the glossary given with this part the words explained in that prefixed to the other.

      In treating so very wide a field, it has been felt that the chief prominence should be given to that great sequence of architectural styles which form the links of a chain connecting the architecture of modern Europe with the earliest specimens of the art. Egypt, Assyria, and Persia combined to furnish the foundation upon which the splendid architecture of the Greeks was based. Roman architecture was founded on Greek models with the addition of Etruscan construction, and was for a time universally prevalent. The break-up of the Roman Empire was followed by the appearance of the Basilican, the Byzantine, and the Romanesque phases of Christian art; and, later on, by the Saracenic. These are the styles on which all mediæval and modern European architecture has been based, and these accordingly have furnished the subjects to which the reader’s attention is chiefly directed. Such styles as those of India, China and Japan, which lie quite outside this series, are noticed much more briefly; and some matters—such, for example, as prehistoric architecture—which in a larger treatise it would have been desirable to include, have been entirely left out for want of room.

      In treating each style the object has not been to mention every phase of its development, still less every building, but rather to describe the more prominent buildings with some approach to completeness. It is true that much is left unnoticed, for which the student who wishes to pursue the subject further will have to refer to the writings specially devoted to the period or country. But it has been possible to describe a considerable number of typical examples, and to do so in such a manner as, it is hoped, may make some impression on the reader’s mind. Had notices of a much greater number of buildings been compressed into the same space, each must have been so condensed that the volume, though useful as a catalogue for reference, would have, in all probability, become uninteresting, and consequently unserviceable to the class of readers for whom it is intended.

      As far as possible mere matters of opinion have been excluded from this handbook. A few of the topics which it has been necessary to approach are subjects on which high authorities still more or less disagree, and it has been impossible to avoid these in every instance; but, as far as practicable, controverted points have been left untouched. Controversy is unsuited to the province of such a manual as this, in which it is quite sufficient for the authors to deal with the ascertained facts of the history which they have to unfold.

      It is not proposed here to refer to the authorities for the various statements made in these pages, but to this rule it is impossible to avoid making one exception. The writers feel bound to acknowledge how much they, in common with all students of the art, are indebted to the patient research, the profound learning, and the admirable skill in marshalling facts displayed by Mr. Fergusson in his various writings. Had it been possible to devote a larger space to Eastern architecture, Pagan and Mohammedan, the indebtedness to him, in a field where he stands all but alone, must of necessity have been still greater.

      The earlier chapters of this volume were chiefly written by Mr. Slater, who very kindly consented to assist in the preparation of it; but I am of course, as editor, jointly responsible with him for the contents. The Introduction, Chapters V. to VII., and from Chapter X. to the end, have been written by myself: and if our work shall in any degree assist the reader to understand, and stimulate him to admire, the architecture of the far-off past; above all, if it enables him to appreciate our vast indebtedness to Greek art, and in a lesser degree to the art of other nations who have occupied the stage of the world, the aim which the writers have kept in view will not have been missed.

      T. Roger Smith.

      University College, London.

      May, 1882.

      Frieze from Church at Denkendorf.

      CONTENTS.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

      Rock-cut Tomb at Myra, in Lycia.

      Imitation of Timber Construction in Stone.

      GLOSSARY.

      Abacus, a square tablet which crowns the capital of the column.

      Acanthus, a plant, the foliage of which was imitated in the ornament of the Corinthian capital.

      Agora, the place of general assembly in a Greek city.

      Alæ (Lat. wings), recesses opening out of the atrium of a Roman house.

      Alhambra, the palatial fortress of Granada (from al hamra—the red).

      Ambo, a fitting of early Christian churches, very similar to a pulpit.

      Amphitheatre, a Roman place of public entertainment in which combats of gladiators, &c., were exhibited.

      Antæ, narrow piers used in connection with columns in Greek architecture,

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