Examples of Gothic Architecture (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pugin, Augustus

9781440068447: Examples of Gothic Architecture (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1440068445 ISBN 13: 9781440068447

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Several drawings were then made for the intended publication; and a volume, to be entitled, Specimens of Gothic A rchitecture, was immediately undertaken.! A short essay, on the decline of the Gothic style, in this country, and the successive attempts which led to its revival in modern times, was prefixed to the description of subjects represented in the engravings; and aG lossary ofT echnical Terms, descriptive of Gothic A rchitecture, selected from various ancient authorities, and hitherto unexplained, was annexed to the volume; together with some prefatory observations on that subject. The favourable reception of theS pecimens led to the undertaking of a second volume, under the same title, and of corresponding character, which was completed at the close of the year 18224 In 1825, and the two following years, Mr. PUGIN was engaged in the publication of a series of engraved Specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy. This work displays, amidst other curious subjects, some rich pieces of domestic architecture, of a style widely differing in details from any contemporary examples to be seen in this country. It was an arduous effort to bring home to theE nglish student, some of the many varieties of the Gothic architecture of the Con Some of these were engraved for the Fifth, or Chronological, volume of Britten sA rchitectural A ntiquities, which was then in a course of publication. tA bout two years before that time, Mr. Pugin had produced, in conjunction with Mr. F. Mackenzie, a volume containing sixty-one Plates, entitled, Specimens of Gothic A rchitecture, chiefly selected from the ancient buildings at Oxford. This was a respectable publication, and approached nearly to the idea of the work under consideration; but the subjects being drawn in perspective, were not well adapted to imitation; and several of them were of a description merely curi
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