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Title: Architecture
Gothic and Renaissance

Author: Thomas Roger Smith

Editor: Edward J. Poynter

Release Date: October 3, 2010 [EBook #33837]

Language: English

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_ILLUSTRATED TEXT-BOOKS OF ART
EDUCATION_

_EDITED BY EDWARD J. POYNTER, R.A._

ARCHITECTURE
GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE

BY T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.

[Illustration: P. 114
THE CERTOSA, NEAR PAVIA. FROM THE CLOISTERS.
BEGUN BY MARCO DI CAMPIONE, A.D. 1393.]

_TEXT-BOOK OF ART EDUCATION, EDITED BY
EDWARD J. POYNTER, R.A._

ARCHITECTURE
GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE

BY T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.

_Occasional Lecturer on Architecture
at University College, London_

[Illustration: {SAINT GEORGE. PANEL FROM THE TOMB
OF CARDINAL AMBOISE IN ROUEN CATHEDRAL.}]

NEW YORK
SCRIBNER AND WELFORD.

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1880

(_All rights reserved._)

LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL, E. C.

[Illustration: {CRETE FROM NOTRE DAME, PARIS.}]

PREFACE.

The history, the features, and the most famous examples of European
architecture, during a period extending from the rise of the Gothic,
or pointed, style in the twelfth century to the general depression
which overtook the Renaissance style at the c