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ABC/14
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Elements et theoris de l’architecture in 4 volumes. Vol III
Date(s)
- [1923] (Creation)
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1 volume
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Name of creator
(1834-1908)
Biographical history
French architect, theoretician and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
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The third volume of a series of books on general architecture. It consists of books X-XII comprising numerous chapters on public buildings and decorations. The focus is on the main types of public edifices (commercial venues, public bathrooms, theatres, railways), religious institutions (churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues), funerary and commemorative constructions (tombs, steles, tomb stones) and their characteristics. The texts are accompanied by various drawings, photographs, plans, elevations and sections, some to scale. Buildings included are: Deposit of the foundries of the Val d'Osne; Forum of Pompeii; Ypres Hall; Saint Germain Market, Paris; Saint Bernard Wearhouse, Paris; Old Wheat Hall, Paris; Bordeaux Stock Exchange Building; Paris Stock Exchange Building; Baths and Washrooms, Caen; Baths of Caracalla; Old and New Lyon Railways, Paris; Railway Station, Orleans; Coliseum; Mayence Theatre; Paris Opera; Royal Opera, Versailles; Alexandra Theatre, Saint Petersburg; Theatre of France; Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux; Temple of Minerva Medica; Basilica of Constantine, Rome; Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome; Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano, Rome; Orvieto Cathedral; Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna; Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice; Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse; Angoulême Cathedral; Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Church of Saint-Séverin, Paris; Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris; Church of St Eustache, Paris; Basilique Saint-Urbain of Troyes; Giotto's Campanile, Florence Cathedral; Giralda Tower, Seville Cathedral; Laon Cathedral; Bell Tower of Saint-Pol-de-Léon Cathedral; Saint-Genès Church of Châteaumeillant; Facade of Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey; Saint-Jacques Church of Dieppe; Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers; Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Vernon; Toul Cathedral; Pisa Baptistery; Ravenna Baptistery of Neon; Florence Baptistery; Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Rome; Santa Maria della Salute, Venice; Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, Florence; St. Peter's Basilica, Rome; Chapels of Versailles; Dome of the Invalides, Paris; Panthéon, Paris; Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church; Church of Saint-Roch, Paris; Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris; Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad, Cairo; Mosque Kail Bey, Cairo; Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque, Algiers; Grand Synagogue of Paris; Sainte-Trinité, Paris; Florence Charterhouse; Tomb of Philippe Pot; Tomb of Louis XII; Tomb of Antonio Sforza; Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa.
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- French
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Good condition