The Project Gutenberg eBook of How to Study Architecture
Title: How to Study Architecture
Author: Charles H. Caffin
Release date: December 2, 2019 [eBook #60830]
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Language: English
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HOW TO STUDY ARCHITECTURE
HOW TO
STUDY ARCHITECTURE
BY
CHARLES H. CAFFIN
of French Painting,” “The Story of Dutch Painting,”
“The Story of Spanish Painting,” “Appreciations
of the Drama,” “Art for Life’s Sake,” etc.
AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE THE EVOLUTION OF
ARCHITECTURE AS THE PRODUCT AND EXPRESSION
OF SUCCESSIVE PHASES OF CIVILISATION
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1917
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author gratefully acknowledges the critical assistance given to him on certain points by Professor William H. Goodyear, W. Harmon Beers and William Warfield; and his indebtedness to Caroline Caffin for compiling the index and to Irving Heyl for several architectural drawings. For some of the illustrations he has put himself under obligations to the following publications, through the courtesy of the Librarian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—“Histoire de l’Art,” by Perrot et Chipiez; “Assyrian Sculptures,” by Rev. Archibald Paterson; “Monuments Modernes de la Perse,” by Pascal Coste; “Ruins of the Palace of Diocletian at Spalato” by R. Adams, and “The Annual of the British School at Athens.”