Architectural Symbolism of Imperial Rome and the Middle Ages
Author: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780758157478
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Author: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780758157478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 235
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Published: 1956
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An investigation of a group of architectural features, all directly or indirectly related to the city-gate and palace entrance, and the ceremonies which gave the forms so much of their royal and divine significance in the popular imagination."-- page 3.
Author: E. Baldwin Smith
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Published: 1978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. C. Fernie
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781852850340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Architecture and its Intellectual Context reflects the range of Peter Kidson's own interests and are united in following his approach to medieval architecture and art: a determination to see buildings and objects in the intellectual terms of the time in which they were created.
Author: John W. Stamper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-16
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780521810685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs. He also traces Rome's temple architecture as it evolved over time and how it accommodated changing political and religious contexts, as well as the affects of new stylistic influences.
Author: William Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780300034707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets
Author: Allan Doig
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780754652724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents include: 'The Earliest Christian Worship and Its Setting', 'Late Antiquity in the West and the Gallican Rite', 'Carolingian Architecture and Liturgical Reform' and 'Monasticism, Pilgrimage and the Romanesque'.
Author: Nigel Hiscock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1351881353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. Instead, it attributes intellectual meaning to it as understood by Christian Platonist thought and provides compelling evidence that the symbolism was often intended. In so doing, the book serves as a companion volume to The Wise Master Builder by the same author, which found the same system implicit in plans of cathedrals and abbeys. The present book explains how the architectural symbolism proposed could have been understood at the time, as supported by medieval texts and its context, since it is context that can confer specific meaning. The introduction locates the study in its critical context and summarizes Christian Platonism as it determined the meaning of number and geometry. The investigation opens with the recurrent symbolism of the dome and the cube as heaven and earth in the Byzantine world and moves to the duality of the temple and the body in the East and West as reflections of Plato's universal macrocosm and human microcosm. The study then examines each of the figures of Platonic geometry in the architecture of the West against the background of their mathematics and metaphysics, before proceeding to their synthesis with the circle, as seen in circular and polygonal structures, the divisions of circles in Christian art, and their display in window tracery, culminating in the rose window. In view of the multivalency of the symbolism, the investigation establishes systematic occurrences of it, which strongly suggest patterns of thought underlying systems of design. The book concludes with a series of test cases, which show the after-life of the same symbolism as it overlapped with the Renaissance.