CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
INTRODUCTION.
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| Part I.—Section I. Introductory.—II. Beauty in Art.—III. Definition of Architecture.—IV. Mass.—V. Stability.—VI. Durability.—VII. Materials.—VIII. Construction.—IX. Forms.—X. Proportion.—XI. Carved Ornament.—XII. Decorative Colour.—XIII. Sculpture and Painting.—XIV. Uniformity—XV. Imitation of Nature.—XVI. Association.—XVII. New Style.—XVIII. Prospects | [3] |
| PART II.—ETHNOGRAPHY AS APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURAL ART. | |
| I. Introductory | [52] |
| II. Turanian Races—Religion, Government, Morals, Literature, Arts, and Sciences | [55] |
| III. Semitic Races—Religion, Government, Morals, Literature, Arts, and Sciences | [64] |
| IV. Celtic Races—Religion, Government Morals, Literature Arts, and Sciences | [70] |
| V. Aryan Races—Religion, Government, Morals, Literature, Arts, and Sciences | [75] |
| VI. Conclusion | [83] |
| PART I.—ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. | |
| Introductory | [87] |
| Outline of Egyptian Chronology | [90] |
| BOOK I.—EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE. | |
| I. Introductory | [91] |
| II. The Pyramids and Contemporary Monuments—Tombs—Temples | [97] |
| III. First Theban Kingdom—The Labyrinth—Tombs—Shepherds | [110] |
| IV. Pharaonic Kingdom—Thebes—Rock-cut Tombs and Temples—Mammeisi—Tombs—Obelisks—Domestic Architecture | [118] |
| V. Greek and Roman Period—Decline of art—Temples at Denderah—Kalábsheh—Philæ | [139] |
| VI. Ethiopia—Kingdom of Meroë—Pyramids | [147] |
| BOOK II.—ASSYRIAN ARCHITECTURE. | |
| I. Introductory | [151] |
| II. Chaldean Temples | [157] |
| III. Assyrian Palaces—Wurka—Nineveh—Nimroud—Khorsabad—Palace of Sennacherib, Koyunjik—Palace of Esarhaddon—Temples and Tombs | [168] |
| IV. Persia—Pasargadæ—Persepolis—Susa—Fire Temples—Tombs | [194] |
| V. Invention of the Arch | [214] |
| VI. Judea—Temple of Jerusalem | [219] |
| VII. Asia Minor—Historical notice—Tombs at Smyrna—Doganlu—Lycian Tombs | [229] |
| BOOK III.—GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. | |
| I. Greece—Historical notice—Pelasgic art—Tomb of Atreus—Other remains | [240] |
| II. Hellenic Greece—History Of the Orders—Doric Temples in Greece—Doric Temples in Sicily—Ionic Temples—Corinthian Temples—Dimensions of Greek Temples—Doric order—Ionic order—Corinthian order—Caryatides—Forms of temples—Mode of lighting temples—Temple of Diana at Ephesus—Municipal architecture—Theatres—Tombs—Cyrene | [251] |
| BOOK IV.—ETRUSCAN, ROMAN, PARTHIAN AND SASSANIAN ARCHITECTURE. | |
| I. Etruria—Historical notice—Temples—Rock-cut tombs—Tombs at Castel d’Asso—Tumuli—The arch | [289] |
| II. Rome—Introduction | [302] |
| III. Roman Architecture—Origin of style—The arch—Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite—Temples—The Pantheon—Roman Temple at Athens—at Baalbec | [305] |
| IV. Basilicas, Theatres and Baths—Basilicas of Trajan and Maxentius—Provincial basilicas—Theatre at Orange—Colosseum—Provincial amphitheatres—Baths of Diocletian | [327] |
| V. Triumphal Arches, Tombs, and other Buildings—Arches at Rome; in France—Arches at Trèves—Pillars of Victory—Tombs—Minerva Medica—Provincial tombs—Eastern tombs—Domestic Architecture—Spalato—Pompeii—Bridges—Aqueducts | [347] |
| VI. Parthian and Sassanian Architecture—Historical notice—Palaces of Al Hadhr and Diarbekr—Domes—Serbistan—Firouzabad—Tâk Kesra—Palaces at Mashita—Rabbath Ammon, etc. | [389] |
| PART II.—CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. | |
| BOOK I.—BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. | |
| I. Introductory | [415] |
| II. Basilicas—Churches at Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Thessalonica—Rectangular churches in Syria and Asia Minor, with wooden roofs and with stone vaults | [419] |
| III. Circular or Domical Buildings—Circular churches with wooden roofs and with true domes in Syria and Thessalonica—Churches of SS. Sergius and Bacchus and Sta. Sophia, Constantinople—Civic Architecture—Tombs | [432] |
| IV. Neo-Byzantine Style—Sta. Irene, Constantinople—Churches at Ancyra, Trabala, and Constantinople—Churches at Thessalonica and in Greece—Domestic Architecture | [453] |
| V. Armenia—Churches at Dighour, Usunlar, Pitzounda, Bedochwinta, Mokwi, Etchmiasdin, and Kouthais—Churches at Ani and Samthawis—Details | [466] |
| VI. Rock-cut Churches—Churches at Tchekerman, Inkerman, and Sebastopol—Excavations at Kieghart and Vardzie | [481] |
| VII. Mediæval Architecture of Russia—Churches at Kief—Novogorod—Moscow—Towers | [484] |
| BOOK II.—ITALY. | |
| I. Introductory—Division and Classification of the Mediæval Styles of Architecture in Italy | [500] |
| II. Early Christian Style—Basilicas at Rome—Basilica of St. Peter—St. Paul’s—Basilicas at Ravenna—St. Mark’s, Venice—Dalmatia and Istria—Torcello | [504] |
| III. Circular Romanesque Churches—Circular Churches—Tomb of Sta. Costanza—Churches at Perugia, Nocera, Ravenna, Milan—Secular buildings | [542] |
| IV. Lombard and Round-arched Gothic—Chapel at Friuli—Churches at Piacenza, Asti, and Novara—St. Michele, Pavia—St. Ambrogio, Milan—Cathedral, Piacenza—Churches at Verona—Churches at Toscanella—Circular Churches—Towers | [558] |
| V. Byzantine-Romanesque—Cathedral of Naples—San Miniato, Florence—Cathedrals of Pisa and Zara—Cathedrals of Troja, Bari, Bittonto—San Nicole, Bari—Cloisters of St. John Lateran—Baptistery of Mont St. Angelo—San Donato, Zara—Towers—Civic Architecture | [582] |
| VI. Pointed Italian Gothic—Fresco paintings—Churches at Vercelli, Asti, Verona, and Lucca—Cathedral at Siena—Sta. Maria, Florence—Church at Chiaravalle—St. Petronio, Bologna—Cathedral at Milan—Certosa, near Pavia—Duomo at Ferrara | [607] |