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Title: Architecture
Classic and Early Christian

Author: Thomas Roger Smith
John Slater

Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29759]

Language: English

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_ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY_
_OF ALL AGES_

ARCHITECTURE
CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

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

AND

JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.

[Illustration: THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF
PERICLES, _circa_ B.C. 438.]

_ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY_

ARCHITECTURE

CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

BY T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.
_Professor of Architecture, University Coll. London_

AND

JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.

[Illustration: ATRIUM OF A ROMAN MANSION.]

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1882.

[_All rights reserved._]

LONDON. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE.

This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture
of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of
the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information
required by the professional student, may give a general idea of the
works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early
Christian times. Its chief object has been to place information on the
subject within the reach of those persons of literary or artistic
education who desire to become in some degree acquainted with
Architecture. All technicalities which could be dispensed with have
been accordingly excluded; and when it has been unavoi