An Historical Essay on Architecture

Thomas Hope

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107109803

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Volume 2
Thomas Hope

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107109803
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107109803

Subjects:: Art: General Interest, Art, Applied Arts, Architecture
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

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With a fondness for classical antiquities and neoclassical design, the connoisseur Thomas Hope (1769–1831) sought to influence Georgian taste by promoting informed interior decoration, displaying his own considerable art collection, and writing with insight on aesthetic topics. This two-volume work, originally published posthumously in 1835, traces the evolution of Western architecture since antiquity. Hope was a keen traveller, and the examples he cites are drawn from buildings that he studied on journeys through Europe and beyond, notably in those countries bordering the Mediterranean. Volume 2 contains the precise line drawings that accompanied the first edition, showcasing many western European and ecclesiastical buildings and details. The work's analytical index, which appeared in 1836, is illustrated with wood engravings of features mentioned in the text and has been incorporated in this reissue.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

LIST OF PLATES pages v to liii
pp v-liii

LIST OF PLATES pages liv to cvi
pp liv-cvi

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp cvii-cviii

Dedication
pp cix-cx

CHAP. 1 - INTRODUCTION
pp 1-1

CHAP. 2 - ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EGYPTIAN STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE
pp 2-3

CHAP. 3 - ORIGIN OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE GREEKS
pp 4-4

CHAP. 4 - INFLUENCE UPON ARCHITECTURE OF HABIT AND RELIGION
pp 4-5

CHAP. 5 - NATURE AND CHARACTER OF THE DIFFERENT ORDERS OF GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE
pp 5-6

CHAP. 6 - NATURAL AND ADVENTITIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES BY WHICH GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE WAS AFFECTED
pp 7-7

CHAP. 7 - ON THE ORIGIN OF THE ARCH
pp 7-7

CHAP. 8 - DECAY OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE GREEKS, AND PROGRESS OF THAT OF THE ROMANS
pp 7-8

CHAP. 9 - EFFECT, UPON ARCHITECTURE, OF THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY; OCCUPATION OF BASILICAS, AND USE OF ANCIENT MATERIALS
pp 9-15

CHAP. 10 - EFFECT UPON ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE WANT OF GLASS; AND CHANGES PRODUCED BY ITS INTRODUCTION
pp 15-16

CHAP. 11 - SOME ACCOUNT OF ROUND OR POLYGONIC BUILDINGS
pp 16-18

CHAP. 12 - RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF BYZANTIUM
pp 18-23

CHAP. 13 - DERIVATION OF THE PERSIAN, MOHAMMEDAN, AND MOORISH ARCHITECTURE, FROM THAT OF BYZANTIUM
pp 23-24

CHAP. 14 - DERIVATION OF RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE FROM THAT OF BYZANTIUM
pp 25-25

CHAP. 15 - DESTRUCTION OF PAGAN WORKS OF ART, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY AND PROGRESS OF THE USE OF MOSAIC AND OTHER GAUDY DECORATIONS
pp 26-29

CHAP. 16 - SYMBOLS USED BY THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, AND INTRODUCED INTO THEIR CONSTRUCTIONS
pp 29-30

CHAP. 17 - HEATHEN CUSTOMS KEPT UP OR EMULATED BY THE CHRISTIANS
pp 30-31

CHAP. 18 - SCHISM BETWEEN THE GREEK AND LATIN CHURCHES, AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE LATTER–THE MULTIPLICATION OF SCULPTURED REPRESENTATIONS
pp 31-35

CHAP. 19 - SEPULCHRAL ARCHITECTURE
pp 35-36

CHAP. 20 - EARLY STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE, ON THIS SIDE OF THE ALPS, DERIVED FROM ITALY
pp 37-38

CHAP. 21 - INVESTIGATION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH, TOWARDS THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY, AFFECTED ARCHITECTURE, GENERALLY AND EXTENSIVELY, THROUGHOUT EUROPE
pp 38-40

CHAP. 22 - LOMBARD STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE
pp 41-48

CHAP. 23 - PROGRESS OF THE ART OF CONSTRUCTING ARCHES AND VAULTS
pp 48-48

CHAP. 24 - FORMS OF THE ABSIS, ENTRANCE, CUPOLA, SPIRE, AND STEEPLE, USUALLY SEEN IN LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE
pp 48-52

CHAP. 25 - LOMBARD MONASTIC ARCHITECTURE
pp 52-52

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