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Description De L'egypte: Napoleon's Expedition To the Discovery of Ancient Egypt
by Franco Serino  Publisher Comments Napoleon's Expedition to the Discovery of Ancient Egypt. This publication, dedicated to the description of so many gigantic monuments, is itself a colossal work in the field of literature, science and art....
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Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Publisher Comments The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation....
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Socrates' Ancestor: An Essay on Architectural Beginnings
by Indra Kagis Mcewen Publisher Comments Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western...
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Pyramid (75 Edition)
by David Macaulay Publisher Comments 'Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.'...
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Greek & Roman Architecture 2ND Edition
by Donald St Robertson Publisher Comments This book provides a brief, clear account of the main developments in the history of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture, from the earliest times to the foundation of Constantinople. It contains 135 drawings and 24 plates. Professor Robertson has...
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The Classical Language of Architecture
by John Summerson Publisher Comments Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an...
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Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture
by Ian Jenkins Publisher Comments From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity --among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple...
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The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 B.C.--A.D. 700 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Judith Mckenzie Synopsis This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium--from the city's founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642...
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Greek Art
by Mark D Fullerton Publisher Comments Fullerton presents a history of classical Greek art through a range of media and materials....
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Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects Who Won the Prix de Rome, 1796-1924
by Roberto Cassanelli Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-217) and index....
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The Christian Art of Byzantine Syria
by Ignacio Pena Publisher Comments A comprehensively illustrated book about the beautifully preserved buildings and carvings of the legendary Dead Cities. The thriving Byzantine Empire produced a particularly fine standard of art and architecture between the 4th and 7th centuries. Many...
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Discoveries: Ramessess II: Greatest of the Pharaohs (Discoveries)
by Bernadette Menu Synopsis Drawing on ancient government documents as well as wall paintings, bas-reliefs, and colossal statues, a respected Egyptologist presents the life and times of Ramesses (1279-1213 B.C.). 175 illustrations, 100 in color....
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Vitruvius on Architecture
by Vitruvius Pollio Synopsis Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. This work, known today as Ten Books on Architecture, is the most comprehensive architectural book written in antiquity...
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Art and Architecture of Mesopotamia
by Giovanni Curatola Synopsis The artistic traditions of ancient Iraq, or Mesopotamia, are among the oldest in the world, for it was in this flat, fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that the world's first advanced civilization, that of the Sumerians, arose around...
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay Publisher Comments Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them....
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Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
by Rabun Taylor Publisher Comments How were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Each major phase of the building process is considered in the building histories of the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, and the great temples...
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The Roman Amphitheatre: From Its Origins to the Colosseum
by Katherine E. Welch Publisher Comments Katherine Welch's study analyzes the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form....
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built
by Chris Scarre Synopsis How were the ancient wonders of the world built? This text examines spectacular feats of engineering and celebrates the achievements of the builders who worked without the aid of modern technology. It includes 70 wonders, from the Great Wall of China to...
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Ancient Monuments Revealed
by Ian Westwell Synopsis The second in a series that uses computer technology to literally "lift the lid" from the work of famous architects, this book looks at some of the greatest buildings of the distant past; the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids at Giza; the Coliseum in Rome; the...
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The Complete Greek Temples
by Tony Spawforth Publisher Comments Presents an illustrated survey of Greek temples. From the debated origins of the temple in the Greek dark ages to its transformation at the end of antiquity, this book summarizes the thinking. It is illustrated with photographs, maps, plans and...
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