"A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture" by Clara Erskine Clement Waters. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Clara Erskine Clement Waters. A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Table of Contents
ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER I. ANCIENT OR HEATHEN ARCHITECTURE. 3000 B.C. TO A.D. 328
EGYPT
ASSYRIA
BABYLON
PERSIA
JUDEA
GREECE
ETRURIA
ROME
CHAPTER II. CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. A.D. 328 TO ABOUT 1400
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER III. MODERN ARCHITECTURE. 1400 A.D. TO THE PRESENT TIME
ITALY
SPAIN
FRANCE
ENGLAND
GERMANY
THEATRES AND MUSIC HALLS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
INDEX
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Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The obelisks of ancient Egypt have a present interest which is almost personal to everybody, since so many of them have been taken away from the banks of the Nile and so placed that they now overlook the Bosphorus, the Tiber, the Seine, the Thames, and our own Hudson River; in truth, there are twelve obelisks in Rome, which is a larger number than are now standing in all Egypt.
