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The West: From the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation

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By (author): Christopher Tadgell

This volume tells the story of European architecture in the middle ages from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society it had fostered to the rediscovery of Classical values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy.

This period saw the evolution of feudalism, with its patterns of dependency and obligation, the establishment of monasticism in its varied forms, and the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. The art and architecture that emerged alongside this profound social reordering is known as Romanesque. Based on the legacy of ancient Rome, it included elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions. This synthesis produced some of its most powerful monuments in the glorious abbey churches that a period of prosperity and political stability fostered in unprecedented numbers.

Romanesque architecture was succeeded by the Gothic, a movement that originated at the abbey of S. Denis in France in the 12th century. Structurally daring, it heralded a new architecture of light, most enduringly expressed in great cathedrals, subsequently in the growing sophistication of houses and civic architecture as feudal magnates increasingly ceded power to the central authority.

The book ends with the Italian rediscovery of Classical ideas and ideals and the emergence of the great Renaissance theorists and architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti and Bramante. As well as the palazzos, villas and churches of Renaissance Italy, this period saw the building of great châteaux in France, palaces in Germany and the golden-domed cathedrals of Russia.

With more than two thousand images, including many plans, The West is an unprecedented single-volume survey of the period, covering the whole of Europe from Ireland to Russia, and placing architectural developments within their political, technological, artistic and intellectual contexts.

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  • Weight: 2109g
  • Dimensions: 180 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781138038929

About Christopher Tadgell

Christopher Tadgell taught architectural history for almost thirty years before devoting himself full-time to writing and research travelling the world to see and photograph buildings from every tradition and period. Born in Sydney he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute in London. In 1974 he was awarded his PhD for a thesis on the Neoclassical architectural theorist Ange-Jacques Gabriel. He subsequently taught in London and at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury with interludes as F.L. Morgan Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville and as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton. He has lectured at academic institutions around the world including the universities of Princeton Harvard Columbia and Cornell the Graham Foundation in Chicago and Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute in the UK. He is a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a member of both the British and American Societies of Architectural Historians. His The History of Architecture in India (1990 several reprints Phaidon) is the definitive one-volume account of the architecture of the subcontinent while many publications on French architecture include the standard account in Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration (ed. Blunt 1978 Elek). He has contributed many articles on Indian and French architecture to The Grove Dictionary of Art and other major reference books.

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