2 edition of Gothic architecture improved by rules and proportions. found in the catalog.
Gothic architecture improved by rules and proportions.
Batty Langley
Published
1967
by Gregg in Farnborough (Hants.)
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Facsimile reprint of 1747 ed.
| Statement | by B. & T. Langley. |
| Contributions | Langley, T. 1702-1751, joint author. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | NA440 .L27 1747a |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | [2 f.] 64 f. |
| Number of Pages | 64 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5644480M |
| LC Control Number | 68077847 |
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The ornamental character of the Gothic Revival was thus established from the start, and it was popularized as such within a few years by Batty Langley, author of Gothic Architecture Improved by Rules and Proportions (). Gradually, however, an interest in 'Gothic' architecture arose along with the assumption that the Middle Ages could do with imrpvement. A manual for architects was "Gothic Architecture Improved by Rules and Proportions" by Batty Langley ().
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Gothic Architecture Improved by Rules and Proportions in Many Grand Designs [From the personal library of architect Anthony Salvin]Author: B. Langley. Batty Langley (baptised 14 September – 3 March ) was an English garden designer, and prolific writer who produced a number of engraved designs for "Gothick" structures, summerhouses and garden seats in the years before the midth century.
An eccentric landscape designer, he gave four of his sons the names Hiram, Euclid, Vitruvius and Archimedes. The architectural designs of Batty Langley greatly influenced England's Gothic Revival movement in the second half of the 18th century. This volume, which completely reproduces the author's most famous and influential work, displays columns, entablatures, windows, mantels, pavilions, and a host of other architectural features/5(4).
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Western architecture - Western architecture - Gothic Revival, c. The architectural movement most commonly associated with Romanticism is the Gothic Revival, a term first used in England in the midth century to describe buildings being erected in the style of the Middle Ages and later expanded to embrace the entire Neo-Gothic movement.
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He is best known for this work ‘Ancient Architecture, Restored, and Improved’ first published in and reissued in as Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions. His book, with engravings by his brother Thomas Langley, attempted to improve Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions and to create a scheme of.
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Gothic architecture (Latin: francigenum opus) is a style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance ating in 12th-century France, it was widely used, especially for cathedrals and churches, until the 16th century.
Its most prominent features included the use of the rib vault and the Influenced: Gothic Revival architecture. But his most famous and, at the time, influential, book was Ancient Architecture Restored published in and reissued in as Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions, in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces umbrellos, temples, pavilions &c.
Buy online, view images and see past prices for LANGLEY, Batty & Thomas Gothic architecture improved by Rules and Proportio. Invaluable is the world's. The term Gothic is, however, purely arbitrary, as is also that of pointed, which has been introduced by writers who admit the principle of the broken arch as the characteristic of so-called Gothic architecture.
The broken or pointed arch, which is formed by the intersection of two opposite curves at an angle more or less acute, was known to architects long before its systematic application. This book was later re-issued in with the pompous title of Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in Many Grand Designs.
The debate as to whether or not ancient Gothic architecture was actually built according to rules and proportions is best left for another : Graham High.Langley, Batty, Ancient architecture, restored and improved by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new, in the Gothick mode, for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens: exceeding everything thats extant: exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper-plates and printed on superfine royal paper / ([London: s.
