How to Study Architecture

HOW TO STUDY ARCHITECTURE
BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN
Author of “How to Study Pictures,” “The Story 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.
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. ”