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The West - From the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation (Paperback)
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The West - From the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation (Paperback)
Series: Architecture in Context
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This volume tells the story of European architecture in the 'middle
ages' - from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the
urban society it had fostered to the rediscovery of Classical
values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy. This
period saw the evolution of feudalism, with its patterns of
dependency and obligation, the establishment of monasticism in its
varied forms, and the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. The art and
architecture that emerged alongside this profound social reordering
is known as Romanesque. Based on the legacy of ancient Rome, it
included elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and
northern European traditions. This synthesis produced some of its
most powerful monuments in the glorious abbey churches that a
period of prosperity and political stability fostered in
unprecedented numbers. Romanesque architecture was succeeded by the
Gothic, a movement that originated at the abbey of S. Denis in
France in the 12th century. Structurally daring, it heralded a new
architecture of light, most enduringly expressed in great
cathedrals, subsequently in the growing sophistication of houses
and civic architecture as feudal magnates increasingly ceded power
to the central authority. The book ends with the Italian
rediscovery of Classical ideas and ideals and the emergence of the
great Renaissance theorists and architects, including Brunelleschi,
Alberti and Bramante. As well as the palazzos, villas and churches
of Renaissance Italy, this period saw the building of great
chateaux in France, palaces in Germany and the golden-domed
cathedrals of Russia. With more than two thousand 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 developments within their political,
technological, artistic and intellectual contexts.
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