Bøker av Christopher Tadgell

This comprehensive revision acknowledges the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. It covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments, and external architectural precedents.

Unprecedented in scope ¿ like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism ¿ this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the 17th and early 18th centuries ¿ particularly the transformation of rationalist Classical ideals into the emotive, highly theatrical style known as Baroque and the further development away from architectonic principles to the free-ranging decorative style known as Rococo.

Unprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak characterized as the High Renaissance.

For students of architecture and art history, for travellers, and for readers who want to understand the genesis of the buildings they see around them, each volume provides a complete, readable and superbly illustrated reference.

Part of "Architecture in Context" series, this book covers the major architectural traditions of European Architecture in the Middle Ages, from the destruction of Rome to the rediscovery of Classical values in 15th-century Italy.

Examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. THis book covers a range of Islamic architecture.

This architectural history, starting with Egypt and Mesopotamia traces the development of building styles and techniques down to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire and the rise of Byzantium.