Architecture of the eighteenth century (Record no. 23423)
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fixed length control field | 01284 a2200133 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780500202029 |
Qualifying information | Paperback |
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 17/02/1986 00:00:00 |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Thames & Hudson |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Architecture of the eighteenth century |
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
Series statement | World of Art S. |
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equaled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of the Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the dazzling theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque toward Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns--Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theaters, museums, hospitals and banks. Summerson provides a succinct and elegant summary of the entire period, bringing into focus not only the stunning beauty of these buildings, but also the background of ideas from which they sprang |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Architecture, BaroqueNeoclassicism (Architecture)Architecture, Modern - 18th centuryArchitecture, European |
9 (RLIN) | 19525 |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Purple | CGLAS Library | CGLAS Library | 13/05/2022 | 9.95 | 724.1 SUM | 07972 | 13/05/2022 | 13/05/2022 | Book |