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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.? History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: being a Sequel to the Handbook of Architecture. By James Febgusson, Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. London: 1862. TV/fif. Fergdsson has worthily completed an important work. He has traced the history of architecture in every country of the world, from its crude infancy through the several stages of its greatness and decay. Few will deny that the undertaking required great courage and no scanty measure of judgment, taste, and learning; but none, perhaps, will read his History of the Modern Styles without feeling that, although it fully sustains his reputation, Mr. Fergusson has found the sequel of his work the less congenial portion of his task. In his ' Handbook of Architecture' he had to deal with styles which were the result of a real growth and a genuine developement of art: but it was not this circumstance alone which imparted to his earlier volumes their peculiar charm. In a series of brilliant sketches he displayed the characteristics and the spirit which marked the art of Greece and Rome, of Assyria, Persia, and Egypt; and his pictures were, on the whole, no less truthful than brilliant. If, while reviewing his Handbook, we disputed the theory which affiliated Greek architecture on that of Egypt, and if we objected still more strongly to his account of the Christian styles as the least satisfactory portion of the work, we welcomed with, gratitude the admirable treatise on Eastern Art, in which Mr. Fergusson has had no rival. With the Asiatic styles in general, and preeminently with those of India, he is thoroughly familiar; and the only regret in the minds of English readers is, that he had not examined at greater length buildings of which they know so little. If in his volume on Christian Art...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217581295 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217581293 |
| Weight | 1.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $33.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 476 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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