The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Vol. 3 This volume concludes the series in which I have tried to give a connected history of Post-Roman Architecture in Europe, from the fall of the Western Empire to the full development of the Classic Renaissance in the 18th century. Though these several volumes may be read as independent works, treating of each period separately, they are meant to be taken in connexion, and to give a consecutive account of the Art in all its changes, to show how they arose from one another, and to trace a reason for them. In following the story through the period of Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, through the great age of the Gothic style that grew out of it, and through the violent revolution in art which revived the study of Roman Architecture, and which we call the Renaissance, I have studied to explain the progress from style to style by the social changes which affected society at each period, and of which the art was the expression and illustration. It is only in this way that the art of Western Europe can properly be understood. The Renaissance in France took a line of its own, influenced by the strong national feeling characteristic of the people. It was derived from Italy, where the Renaissance had been working for eighty years before it was heard of in France, and at first the new art was practised by Italians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.