Robert Willis

Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1835, this work details the motifs and characteristics of medieval architecture, and charts their development, particularly in Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781108051774
• ISBN-10: 1108051774
• Artikelnr.: 36078562

Autorenporträt

Born in Bagdad, Florida, in 1927, Robert Willis served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. The conflict fired his desire for learning, and after the war ended, he attended Florida Southern College, the University of Texas, and capping it off with a PhD from Florida State University. Careers in higher education and, later, real estate followed. Willis has pursued writing with earnest passion since the 1960s. A fan of serious fiction, sometimes with comic overtones, he admires writers like Twain, Hemingway, even the classical bards like Shakespeare and Homer. The list goes on....

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. On mechanical and decorative construction
3. Imposts
4. Shafts
5. Foliation
6. Tracery
7. Vaulting and parts dependent upon it
8. Doorways
9. General arrangements and decoration
10. Concluding summary
Appendices A-C
Description of the plates
Plates.