British Architectural Theory, 1540-1750
Subtitle: An Anthology of Texts (Reinterpreting Classicism) (Reinterpreting Classicism) (Reinterpreting Classicism)
Contributors: Christy Anderson (Contributor); Caroline Van Eck (Editor); Caroline Van Eck (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780754603153
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Theory of architecture; Great Britain; Architecture; Vitruvius Pollio; Reference; Influence; Criticism; 1508-1580; Classicism in architecture; Palladio, Andrea
First sentence: British architectural theory before 1750 consists of a large body of writing on architecture in a variety of genres, such as the letter, the essay, the poem, the sermon or the manual offering practical instructions, but it rarely adopted the format of the classical treatise.